Barry Soper: ZB senior political correspondent on Chris Hipkins ending all remaining Covid-19 restrictions
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
August 14, 20236m 1s
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Show Notes
The Prime Minister has labelled New Zealand's scrapping of all remaining Covid-19 restrictions a 'significant milestone'.
Mandatory seven-day isolation periods are no more, as are masking requirements in health facilities.
ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says the Government needed a distraction from the GST debacle 8 weeks out from the election- as evidenced by the post-Cabinet press conference.
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