Peter Wilson Analysis - Politics has started the year in a way that's almost certainly going to continue throughout 2021, dominated by Covid-19, vaccinations to save us from it, and the housing crisis. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the government's vaccination programme the main issue for her first post-cabinet press conference on Tuesday and it was given an unexpected, unwelcome focus. The first community case of Covid-19 since November had been detected two days earlier. It was unusual because the 56-year-old Northland woman tested positive after leaving managed isolation in Auckland's Pullman Hotel, where she had twice tested negative.