The Government will bring forward booster doses to fight the threat of the highly-infectious Omicron variant of Covid-19. Hipkins said the emerging evidence was that the booster provided far stronger protection from Omicron than the two-shot course. The suite of measures is designed to combat the newly-dominant Omicron variant, which is not yet been found in the community in New Zealand. There were just 28 new community cases on Tuesday, and no new Omicron cases in managed isolation. The party had previously been pushing for MIQ to be abolished for vaccinated Kiwis before Christmas.

Source: Stuff December 21, 2021 10:36 UTC