SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand and the Cook Islands will let people travel between the countries without quarantine, they said on Saturday, in what would be New Zealand's first reciprocal "travel bubble" since the new coronavirus prompted border closures around the world.
Leaders of the South Pacific countries said they had ordered officials to start making arrangements to resume free travel between them from the first quarter of 2021, citing low infection rates and their "special ties". The Cook Islands is one of the only countries to remain COVID-free.
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