Covid-19: Repatriation flight to the Cook Islands reunites families

From Morning Report, 7:50 am on 8 October 2021

The first repatriation flight from New Zealand to the Cook Islands has landed in Rarotonga.

Eighty-seven people departed Christchurch last night after pre-departure medical checks and arrived home in the early hours of this morning.

A second repatriation flight from Auckland is scheduled to depart next Friday.

Vinnie Wylie reports.