Gathering at your home

You can have friends and family over to your home, but gatherings are limited to up to 10 people, or the people who usually live in your house.

Play it safe — keep surfaces clean, wash your hands, and keep the numbers low so you can practice safe physical distancing.

Gathering outside your home

You can attend gatherings in controlled settings outside of your home. Gatherings include:

• weddings

• funerals and tangihanga

• family events

• religious services

• public meetings.

Gatherings must:

• have no more than 10 people

• not be longer than 2 hours

• keep high hygiene standards

• record attendees to ensure contact tracing can be conducted if necessary.

You can’t participate in any gatherings if you have COVID-19 symptoms or if you need to be in isolation for any reason.

Public venues

Many public venues will be open again at Alert Level 2. This includes:

• museums and libraries

• cinemas

• markets

• restaurants, cafes and bars (only for dining at first).

Venues must:

• keep groups of attendees 1 metre apart

• not have groups larger than 10 people

• not have more than 100 people in total — this excludes staff.

• Hospitality venues can only serve customers if they are there to dine.

Some venues will stay shut if they can’t open safely.