Man stuck in Wellington endures 70-day lockdown in hotel waiting for flight home
(WorldNews New Zealand)

For some New Zealand travellers it has been a struggle to get home under Covid-19 travel restrictions, but for one man in Wellington it has been impossible to leave. Chris Elphick. Source: rnz.co.nz New Zealand citizen Chris Elphick has been holed up in a Wellington hotel since before lockdown started, waiting for a flight to back to Vanuatu where he now lives, and where his partner is waiting. `On Saturday, it will be 70 days,` he told Checkpoint. `We moved to Vanuatu about three years ago, and I work in Melanesia, between Vanuatu and the Solomons.` He was due to go home from the Solomons to...