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Press Release – New Zealand Government The Government has set aside extra funding to support the health systems COVID-19 response and to maintain quarantine facilities up to June 2022, Minister for COVID-19 Response Chris Hipkins said today. We are committed to continuing our sustained … The Government has set aside extra funding to support the health system’s COVID-19 response and to maintain quarantine facilities up to June 2022, Minister for COVID-19 Response Chris Hipkins said today. “We are committed to continuing our sustained approach of keeping COVID-19 out, preparing for it,...

Press Release – New Zealand National Party The confusing, sub-standard systems in place around our border response, confirmed by the Roche/Simpson report, show the need for a dedicated border agency, National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “This report provides plenty of cause for concern in the Government’s handling of our Covid-19 response to date. “The Prime Minister and her Cabinet should have been doing a better job of monitoring what the Ministry of Health was doing, rather than just telling the public every day that things were fine when public servants, ...

Virus response not 'fit for purpose' in the long-term Newsroom 17/12/2020 © Provided by Newsroom A review of border testing before the August outbreak has issued wide-ranging recommendations for reshaping the way New Zealand responds to Covid-19, Marc Daalder reports A review of the failure to roll out regular border testing prior to the August Covid-19 outbreak has concluded that New Zealand's current response model isn't "fit for purpose" over the next two to three years. Sir Brian Roche and Heather Simpson, who chaired the investigation, told then-Health Minister and current Covid-19 R...