National's Covid-19 spokesperson Chris Bishop told Checkpoint he thinks the potential time allocation for Aucklanders to leave the region in holidays is "the stupidest idea I've ever heard".
“MIQ is bad enough, with the lottery of human misery for Kiwis to come home to their own country. The idea that Aucklanders will be allocated by the government a week away or something, when I first saw it on Twitter... I actually had to reread it about three times. I couldn't believe it.
“Our view is that get get to 85 percent, obviously as high as possible, but 85 percent, drop the restrictions, allow people to have a bit of freedom for Christmas.
“Obviously we would say right now vaccinated Aucklanders should be able to leave the Auckland prison that they've erected around Auckland.
“We don't have vaccines certificates ready to go yet which is just unbelievable.
