Wellington: A newly pregnant Zealand journalist who was stranded in Afghanistan by the Covid-19 border policy of his home country on Tuesday he would return home after his administration finally offered him again.
The government offer resigned from New Zealand after the previous official insisted that Charlotte Bellis needed to re-register for a place in the Botlenecked Quarantine hotels.
Robertson’s deputy prime minister said Bellis had been offered a voucher for a room.
“I will return to my home country of New Zealand in early March to give birth to our baby girl,” Bellis said in a statement.
“We are very happy to go home and surrounded by family and friends at a special time.” The case quickly became embarrassing for New Zealand, which had thousands of residents who were waiting abroad to open up space at the military-managed border quarantine hotel.
Bellis said he would like to thank the same-sex New Zealand with their support and will continue to challenge the government to find a solution to his border control.
He added that he was disappointed with the decision once and did not offer a trail for other pregnant-old people who were pregnant.
He said on Sunday that every day was a battle.
Now 25 weeks pregnant, he said he had tried without successfully entering New Zealand through the lottery style system and then applied for emergency refunds, but was rejected.
Chris Bunny, Head of the New Zealand Quarantine System, said the new offer was made for Bellis because Afghanistan was very dangerous and there was a risk of terrorism.
He said there was limited ability to help people on the ground, especially after the withdrawal of US troops last year.
“We admit that MS Bellis considered himself safe and not looking for allocations on the land,” said Bunny.
“We have residual wisdom to provide allocations in a rare and extraordinary state.” Bunny said publicity surrounding this case was not a single determining factor and consideration was Bellis’s safety.
Bellis, 35, has worked as Afghan’s correspondent for Al Jazeera, Qatar-based news network.
He resigned in November because it was illegal pregnant and was not married in Qatar.
Bellis then flew to Belgium, trying to get a place to live in the country of origin, photographer Jim Huylebroek, who has lived in Afghanistan for two years.
But Bellis said the length of the process would leave it in Belgium with a passed visa.
Jumped from the country to the country at a tourist visa while he waited so that his baby would have a fee and leave it without health care, so he and Huylebroek returned to Afghanistan because they had a visa, feel welcome and from there could try to fight back to his house.
New Zealand officials said they would add Huylebroek to Bellis’s voucher if he took the same flight as him.
The Taliban has been under international criticism for the repressive rules imposed on women since swept to power in mid-August, including denying women’s education outside the sixth grade.
However, they have said that all women and women will be allowed to attend school after the Afghan new year at the end of March.
While women have returned to work at the Ministry of Health and Education, thousands of female civil servants have not been allowed to return to their work.