[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]New Zealand lifted all restrictions except international border controls after declaring on Monday it was free of the coronavirus. “Before we went to lockdown, we were talking about getting out of it and having a bubble of success between both countries,” Peters told Channel Nine, discussing the prospect of opening travel between New Zealand and some Australian states first.“Let’s not restrain the movement between our two countries based on the slowest state in Australia.”(Reporting by Melanie Burton; Editing by Lincoln Feast.).