Alert Level 3 information on personal movement, exercise, education, work, business, travel and gatherings.

Personal movement

At Alert Level 3, you legally must stay within your household bubble whenever you're not at work or school. You can expand this to:

• connect with close family and whānau
• bring in caregivers, or
• support isolated people.

It’s important to protect your bubble. Keep your bubble exclusive and only include people where it will keep you and them safe and healthy. If anyone within your bubble feels unwell, they legally must immediately self-isolate from everyone else within the bubble.

Do not invite or allow social visitors, such as friends, extended family and whānau, to enter your home.

Physical distancing

Keep your distance when outside your home.

You should keep a distance of at least:

• 2 metres in public and retail stores, like supermarkets
• 1 metre in controlled environments, like workplaces and schools.

Maintaining physical distancing

Face coverings

You:

• legally must wear a face covering on public transport and on domestic flights
• are strongly encouraged to wear a face covering in situations where physical distancing is not possible, like in shops.

Face covering advice and requirements

Local travel

You can travel within your local area, for example going to work or school, shopping, or getting exercise. Public transport can continue to operate with strict health and safety requirements.

Local travel at Alert Level 3

Travel between regions

At Alert Level 3 travel between regions is heavily restricted.

Regional travel

Workplaces and businesses

At Alert Level 3, there are restrictions to keep workers safe, limit interaction with customers and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. We recommend staff working from home if they can.

How to do business at Alert Level 3

Golden rules for business at Alert Level 3

• If your business requires close physical contact it can’t operate.
• We recommend your staff work from home if they can.
• Businesses need to display a QR code and have an alternative contact tracing system. We recommend making sure people either scan in or provide their contact details. 
• Customers cannot come onto your premises — unless you are a supermarket, dairy, butcher, fishmonger, greengrocer, petrol station, pharmacy or permitted health service.
• Your business legally must be contactless. Your customers can pay online, over the phone or in a contactless way. Delivery or pick-up legally must also be contactless.
• Basic hygiene measures legally must be maintained. Physical distancing, hand washing and regularly cleaning surfaces. Workers legally must stay home if they are sick.
• Staff legally must remain a minimum of 1 metre apart at all times where practical. Other measures, such as PPE including face coverings, we recommend being used where appropriate.
• Different advice applies to essential healthcare workers, border agencies, courts and tribunal staff, first responders and corrections staff. You can get further advice  from the Ministry of Health.
• You legally must meet all other health and safety obligations.