Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern will visit Singapore and Japan starting on Monday, her first official overseas trip since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ardern is scheduled to meet with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and for the first time, with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

She is accompanied on the week-long trip by Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O'Connor and 13 business leaders.