Vaccine mandates, gathering limits and lockdowns are among the measures being scrapped. The Government is significantly overhauling its Covid powers, scrapping worker vaccine mandates and its capacity to enforce gathering limits and lockdowns. ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the Government’s Covid powers are being rolled back. The powers that will be scrapped include: lockdowns, MIQ, worker vaccine mandates, gathering limits, the vaccine pass, QR code display, entry requirements at the border, traveller vaccine requirements and testing for people in self-isolation. Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono was concerned at the impact that winding down the Covid powers would have on immunocompromised and disabled people.

Source: Stuff October 18, 2022 18:40 UTC