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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-340/
- Published: 2021-04-10T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-10T03:20:00.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: COVID-19, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

> The United Nations Human Rights Committee “considers that there are a few, if any, circumstances in which deprivation of the right to enter one’s own country could be reasonable”.  
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> Under the [Bill of Rights](https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1990/0109/latest/whole.html?search=sw%5F096be8ed80b62589%5F%22sufficiently+strong+justification%22%5F25%5Fse&p=1&ref=goodoil.news#DLM225517), all Kiwis have a right to come home.  
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> But COVID Response Minister Chris Hipkins told The AM Show on Friday that the suspension was justified due to the spike in positive cases coming from India.  
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> The percentage of arrivals from India testing positive in managed isolation had been around 2-5 percent but has shot up to 10 percent in the recent weeks.  
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> “This is a temporary restriction and it is important to note it is a temporary restriction. It is not a decision that we took lightly,” Hipkins said.

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