Ms Ardern told TVNZ s
Breakfast the strange public request from the High Commission for more oxygen was for a local staff member who lived on the compound and had become ill with COVID-19.
She said the complex itself had been in lockdown a better part of the year and many New Zealand staff had already been sent home to New Zealand.
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It comes after a bizarre series of events on Sunday (NZ time) when the New Zealand High Commission in India sent out a tweet asking the youth leader of India s main opposition party for help supplying oxygen.
PM Jacinda Ardern says there are no plans for repatriation flights for New Zealanders in India.
The New Zealand High Commission in India’s bizarre Twitter plea for oxygen was for a sick local staff member. The staff-member was one of several locally-engaged staff who have contracted Covid-19 within the compound. Prime Minsiter Jacinda Ardern told TVNZ’s
Breakfast the strange public request from the High Commission for more oxygen was for a local staff member who was critically ill. The request – made not to the Government but to the youth leader of an Opposition Party – was successful, but has been deleted by the Commission, who have apologised for the serious breach of diplomatic protocol.
PM Jacinda Ardern says there are no plans for repatriation flights for New Zealanders in India.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand High Commission in India’s bizarre Twitter plea for oxygen was for a sick local staff member. Ardern told TVNZ’s
Breakfast the strange public request from the High Commission for more oxygen was for a local staff member who lived on the compound and had become ill with Covid-19. She said the complex itself had been in lockdown a better part of the year and many New Zealand staff had already been sent home to New Zealand.