Covid-19: Elderly fear deportation to pandemic-hit countries

From Morning Report, 7:53 am on 8 March 2021

A 97-year-old woman is among those who fear they will be deported from New Zealand to countries ravaged by coronavirus.

Others are in their 70s and 80s and say they face a life of fear and isolation if they have to return to their home countries.

They're among thousands of people affected by the freeze on Immigration's parent category.

Gill Bonnett reports.