New Zealand is defending its draconian COVID restrictions that forced a pregnant Kiwi journalist stranded in Afghanistan to turn to the Taliban for help, claiming she didn’t meet the “very high threshold” for emergency entry.Charlotte Bellis’ pregnancy would not have automatically qualified her to be allowed into the country on an emergency basis, despite her living in Doha, Qatar, where it’s illegal to be unmarried with a child, health officials told the New Zealand Herald.“Pregnancy in and of itself is not considered an emergency under the emergency allocation criteria but certain conditions during pregnancy may mean that the high bar for an emergency is met,” Chris Bunny, head of the country’s Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) program, told the newspaper.
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