The Blackcaps will take emergency spots in managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) when they return to New Zealand, after the cancellation of their tour of Pakistan, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
New Zealand's first tour to Pakistan since 2003 was cancelled shortly before the first one-day international at Rawalpindi, after the Government alerted of a credible threat against the team.
In the meantime, the team have arrived safely in Dubai, where they will serve a 24-hour quarantine period, before most of the team return home.
Of the 34 players and staff currently in the Blackcaps' Dubai camp, 24 will travel back to New Zealand, with the other 10 staying on for the Twenty20 World Cup in the UAE next month.
But the early return home has caused a headache, with the team's original MIQ spaces, booked for after October 3 - the original end date of the Pakistan tour - having to be cancelled.
As a result, the returning members of the team will occupy emergency MIQ spaces, when they become available in the coming days.
"Work is being done at the moment to try and accommodate [the Blackcaps]," Prime Minister Ardern says.
"Obviously, their movement back into the country is sooner than was expected. I understand that a large portion of those cricket members will be coming back from their midpoint.
"They are, at the moment, on their way home, and the majority of them - but not all of them - are able to be accommodated immediately. MIQ are working closely with NZ Cricket to find additional capacity.
"Keep in mind, we often operate with some capacity for emergency situations - not large amounts - and so that's what we're working through in order to try and accommodate this immediate need.
"They are being accommodated, whether or not it's through some of the emergency contingency that we have - and we keep that available in case, for any reason, we need to close down another facility or so on.
"So we are finding ways to accommodate them, not all of them, however, at once, because obviously we don't always have capacity for that."
No test cricket was played in Pakistan from 2009-19, after an attack on the Sri Lankan team that left six players injured, as well as six police officers and two civilians dead.
