It occurs to us that the 5 million Kiwis are being locked up, locked down and locked into various degrees all over the country.

These days this seems to be due to people coming into New Zealand with Covid, as they haven't proven that it comes in on frozen meat!

Surely those people coming into New Zealand should be made to have a Covid test before they travel? If travellers test negative for Covid then by all means come and visit, or live here (still do 14 days quarantine though). If they test positive then sorry, but wait until a negative test result is produced. We are entitled to stop anyone coming into our country with a communicable disease.

As well as providing more safety to airline crew and frontline workers, the team of 5 million wouldn't need to stop-start in their tracks every 5 minutes, and this would enable a much better business environment in New Zealand.

Surely this is easy to set up and administer?