MIQ assessment adds 'insult to injury' for women forced to give birth abroad
Women forced to give birth overseas late last year, without any family support, say it is abhorrent health officials thought MIQ wasn't justified at that time.
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Women forced to give birth overseas late last year, without any family support, say it is abhorrent health officials thought MIQ wasn't justified at that time.
Top health officials agreed MIQ was "no longer justified" for most returnees months before incoming travellers were able to enter freely, according to a document the Ministry of Health tried to keep secret.
By Katie Todd of RNZ Top health officials agreed in November last year that Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) was no longer justified for most retu
The government is facing heavy criticism for waiting until February to ditch hotel isolation, but Acting Deputy PM Grant Robertson is ruling out compensation.
RNZ's recent shock horror reporting on a memo from November 2021 proposing a wind back of MIQ is severely deficient. The framing is one sided and ignores the subsequent emergence of Omicron as a variant of concern.