How super-rich Americans fled to New Zealand to stay in their lavish doomsday survival shelters duri

Super-rich Americans have fled to New Zealand to hide out in their luxury bunkers throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Quick-thinking Silicon Valley billionaires booked flights for New Zealand as soon as the COVID-19 crisis began to escalate.

A number of executives managed to escape shortly before the country closed its borders to almost all travellers on March 16.

Just weeks ago, doomsday bunker manufacturer, Rising S Co, got a desperate call from an executive based in New York - the epicentre of the outbreak in the US - asking how to open the secret door to his shelter.

His bunker, 11 feet underground in New Zealand, has never been used.

'He wanted to verify the combination for the door and was asking questions about the power and the hot water heater and whether he needed to take extra water or air filters,' Gary Lynch, general manager of Texas-based company told Bloomberg.

'He went out to New Zealand to escape everything that's happening.

'And as far as I know, he's still there.'

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