The Labor leader was engaged to presenter Clarke Gayford in 2019, with whom she shares a three-year-old daughter.
Just nine cases of the omicron variant have been enough in New Zealand for the country to decree new restrictions in force since Monday, such as limiting the capacity at events to 100 vaccinated people and establishing the mandatory use of masks in stores and public transport. And the wedding plans of the prime minister, Jacinta Ardern , have not been left out of the precautions before the irruption of the new variant. This Sunday, during an interview, Arden confirmed that she is postponing her relationship with television presenter Clarke Gayford, since she believes that she is “no different from thousands of other New Zealanders who have suffered much more devastating impacts from the pandemic.” Among those impacts, he added, “the most devastating is the inability to be with a loved one when they are seriously ill.”
Ardern announced her marriage to Gayford last year, although she did not reveal the exact date at the time. “That’s not to say we haven’t told anyone yet, so I think we should do some invitations,” Ardern said then, in an interview with national radio station Coast Radio. In relation to the link, the 41-year-old Labor leader also declared on that occasion that she felt “a little old to have a wedding party.”
The couple, who got engaged in 2019, have a three-year-old daughter together whom Ardern gave birth to when she already held the position of prime minister, which she agreed to in 2017. Since then she has thanked the public several times for the work What does Gayford, who acts as the main caretaker of little Neve. Part of the personal life of the family —although in a very discreet way— can be followed through Ardern’s Instagram profile , where he alternates political posts with small pills of his day to day life.
Interestingly, the confirmation of the infection of these nine people with the new variant came after they attended a link in Auckland, and official sources have warned that the chances of community transmission following the infection of the group are ” high,” according to the BBC . For this reason, the capacity limitation in events has become 100 vaccinated people or 25 in case the vaccination is not verified, and this includes weddings.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Ardern government has been one of the toughest in applying restrictions to stop the advance of the virus, which to date has left the country with more than 15,600 infections and 52 deaths. In that fight to prevent the spread, Auckland, the country’s most populous city, has been confined four times and travelers from abroad will only be able to enter New Zealand from April 30.