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Coronavirus: Government shutting borders to all but citizens and residents

New Zealand is closing its borders to everyone but citizens and residents in an attempt to stop the growth of coronavirus.

The ban is in place for planes boarding after 11.59pm on Thursday - any planes in the air already would not be impacted.

Partners and children of citizens or residents are exempt from the ban, as are some health and humanitarian workers. A full list of exemptions is available here.

This announcement follows a Covid-19 cabinet meeting on Thursday and comes minutes after Australia banned all non-residents from its country.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement on Thursday evening, acknowledging this was an unprecedented move in New Zealand's history - but a necessary one as the virus spread in other countries.

"This will stop tourists, or temporary visa-holders, including students or temporary workers, from coming to or entering New Zealand."

"New Zealand residents and citizens will be able to return. And of course that applies to the children and partners of residents or citizens."

Australian residents who are "usually resident in New Zealand" are exempt.

Ardern said given that all 28 confirmed cases of coronavirus related to overseas travel the risk was too great.

"All of the cases of COVID-19 identified in New Zealand relate to people travelling to New Zealand and bringing the virus with them – therefore we need to further restrict the risk of people bringing the virus into New Zealand," Ardern said.

"All of the evidence to date is that returning New Zealanders understand the requirement for self-isolation but I have become increasingly concerned that visitors to the country either may not be able to adequately self-isolate for 14 days or chose not to and that is an unacceptable risk that we must eliminate."

"A small number of exemptions to the new measures can be sought for humanitarian reasons, essential health workers and citizens of Samoa and Tonga who need to travel to New Zealand for essential reasons."

She was not pleased with the amount of information being given to tourists as they arrived in New Zealand and could not tolerate any risk there.

"I'm not willing to have risks here, and that's why we're making this decision tonight."

She had discussed the move with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison but did not know about his similar call for Australia before making her own.

The decision was made between 4pm and 5pm on Thursday.

Unlike the earlier self-isolation restriction this move covers the Pacific.

Ardern was confident that some flights would remain for the estimated 100,000 Kiwis travelling overseas.

This was because freight was still being flown into New Zealand.

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has mooted "mercy flights" for Kiwis stuck overseas if needed.

There are now 28 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New Zealand, all of them related to recent overseas travel.

Many but not all of the cases have been citizens or New Zealand permanent residents.

At least three cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand have been travellers from abroad.