Video / NZ HeraldThe Health Minister is making an urgent law change after a High Court judgment ruled it was "reasonably arguable" the Government's provisional approval of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is "problematic". The case - Nga Kaitiaki Tuku Ihu Medical Action Society Incorporated v The Minister of Health - was in the High Court at Wellington last week. Doing so could undermine public confidence in the vaccine and waste vaccine stock that already in New Zealand. In response, Health Minister Andrew Little said the Government was making an urgent "technical amendment to modernise the law". There are occasions when the health needs of a population call for urgent access to a medicine, vaccine or treatment and we need to keep this option available for some circumstances."

Source: New Zealand Herald May 18, 2021 04:30 UTC