Additional entry requirements will apply to travellers from this date. The Cook Islands border will re-open from Friday, 14 January 2022 (NZT).
The Cook Islands Government has suspended new arrivals into the Cook Islands until 11:59 pm (NZT) on Thursday, 13 January 2022.
WEA-compatible phones that do not support enhanced geotargeting will still receive alerts based on the 2017 geographic area requirements.Flying from New Zealand to the Cook Islands
wireless association, estimates that 34 percent of consumers' smartphones supported this enhancement in 2021, an increase from about 18 percent the prior year. This "enhanced geotargeting" relies on new smartphone technology and will be increasingly available as consumers upgrade their devices. Now, as of December 2019, participating wireless providers must geographically target alerts to technologically compatible phones even more: they must deliver the alerts to the area specified by the alert originator with no more than a 1/10 of a mile overshoot. Next, beginning in 2017, participating wireless providers were required to transmit alerts to a geographic area that best approximated the area affected by the emergency, even if it was smaller than a county. When the WEA program launched, participating wireless providers were generally required to send the alerts to a geographic area no larger than the county or counties affected by the emergency. WEA geographic precision is continuously improving. Wireless companies volunteer to participate in WEA, which is the result of a unique public/private partnership between the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the FCC, and the United States wireless industry in order to enhance public safety. The Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN) Act established WEA in 2008 and it became operational in 2012. WEA enables government officials to target emergency alerts to specific geographic areas – lower Manhattan in New York, for example. WEA is a public safety system that allows customers who own compatible mobile devices to receive geographically targeted, text-like messages alerting them of imminent threats to safety in their area. Since its launch in 2012, the WEA system has been used more than 61,000 times to warn the public about dangerous weather, missing children, and other critical situations – all through alerts on compatible cell phones and other mobile devices. The Wireless Emergency Alerts system is an essential part of America's emergency preparedness.
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