10 Dec 2021

Covid-19: Overseas nurses wanting to work in NZ having trouble getting home

From Morning Report, 7:10 am on 10 December 2021

Frustrated New Zealand nurses say they want to come home to work but it's too hard to get back - even with special spots in MIQ.

There are now 300 managed isolation spaces set aside a month for critical health workers - but only 79 have been taken up in the first tranche.

Some workers say there are still too many barriers - and one nurse just gave up and hitched a ride on a yacht instead.

Health correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.