A pregnant reporter is fighting against strict Covid-19 entry rules in New Zealand to reenter her home country while she takes up residency in Kabul. “If I don’t meet the threshold as a pregnant woman, then who does?”
On Monday, New Zealand’s Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said officials had suggested Bellis amend her application or try again under different criteria.
Bellis then flew to Belgium, trying to get residency there, but said the length of the process would have left her in the country with an expired visa. She said she could have hopped from country to country on tourist visas while she waited to have her baby. She said this would have meant spending money on hotels without support or health care, while she fought to return to New Zealand.
She said she tries to stay calm as she wages a paper war with New Zealand’s quarantine system, but that she worries about how the stress she has been under will impact her baby.The Taliban swept to power in August as foreign forces withdrew.Bellis has found an Afghan gynecologist, who promised she could call her if she wakes up in the night with a problem. Bellis toured the doctor’s clinic which has basic facilities, including one incubator. The doctor told her the incubator is often occupied.
Bellis said that prior to returning to Afghanistan, she sought permission from the Taliban. She said she had feared arriving “with a little bump and not married” could be problematic.“I appreciate this isn’t official Taliban policy, but they were very generous and kind. They said ‘you are safe here, congratulations, we welcome you’,” said Bellis.
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