 A New Zealand plans to allow quarantine-free entry to vaccinated travellers from low-risk countries and that's from early next year as part of a phased reopening of its borders after being shot last year due to the pandemic. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday, Ardern said the government will move to a new individual risk-based model for quarantine-free travel and that would be from the first quarter of 2022 and it will establish a low, medium and high-risk pathways into the country. Ardern said a self-isolation pilot project will be started this year and new testing and vaccine checking systems will be set up at borders. While the pandemic continues to rage overseas and the virus continues to change and mutate, the best thing we can do is lock in the gains achieved today while keeping our options open and giving ourselves choices and a careful approach that says there won't be zero cases but when there is one in the community we crush it. It's the best way to maintain our normal lives while we monitor the twists and turns of COVID-19 over the next six months. We're not in a position to fully reopen just yet. When we move we will be careful and deliberate because we want to move with confidence and with as much certainty as is possible. Rushing could see us in the situation many other countries are finding themselves in where after the same periods of case numbers falling due to vaccination they're finding them rise again after relaxing their settings and opening their borders.