Covid-19 Minister Chris Hipkins says he inadvertently misled media when discussing the delivery timetable for the Covid-19 vaccine. Hipkins has been saying in recent days that the last large shipments of the vaccine will arrive in the country during October. ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff Chris Hipkins said he misspoke when saying vaccines would arrive in the third quarter. Asked about this discrepancy, Hipkins said he had received advice about the vaccine arriving “by October” and had interpreted that wrongly. I accept that my statement at the time was not totally correct.”ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff Chris Bishop said the vaccine roll-out was “incompetence on a mass scale”.

Source: Stuff August 29, 2021 23:40 UTC