PHOTO: THE-PRESS Under alert level 3, house hunters can travel within a region to view a property. (File photo)
As bach owners are being told to stay home during alert level 3, people interested in viewing real estate have free rein to journey across wide-ranging Covid-19 regions.
South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen questioned the logic of allowing people from the infected wider Wellington region to enter Covid-free Wairarapa to look at a house.
“When the Government in its wisdom creates a region it isn’t necessarily logical when it comes to the Wairarapa — an area that has no Covid cases and people are travelling from an area that does have Covid cases.”
Under the Health Act (Covid19 Alert Level 3) Order, New Zealand was carved into 15 regions, and the Wellington Region group included all Lower North Island districts from Kāpiti Coast and Masterton districts south.
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