"Regrettable" is how the Covid-19 Response Minister has described the slow response to a vaccine botch up, that may have resulted in five people possibly missing a Covid-19 vaccine.
More than 700 people were vaccinated at the same location on that day. They are being contacted.
On Wednesday morning RNZ revealed five people may have been given a dose of harmless saline instead of a Covid-19 vaccine at the Highbrook centre last month.
Health authorities have defended the decision not to go public, saying they were waiting on expert advice.
Here's our political editor, Jane Patterson.
