30 Apr 2021

Unknown number of port workers refusing Covid-19 vaccine

From Checkpoint, 5:17 pm on 30 April 2021

An unknown number of New Zealand port workers in "high risk" roles handling international goods are refusing the Covid-19 vaccine.

From 11:59pm Friday all managed isolation and quarantine workers must be vaccinated.

The same rule will apply to all government workers in other border roles considered to be high risk, but non-government workers in these other roles are not yet covered by the rule.

Speaking form the port of Gisborne Local democracy reporter Alice Angeloni has the story.