Remove mandates once omicron peaks: Luxon

Remove mandates once omicron peaks: Luxon
The National party leader got in just ahead of Jacinda Ardern on signals for easing covid restrictions. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
National party leader Christopher Luxon has stolen a march on the government by calling for vaccine mandates to be progressively removed as soon as the current omicron outbreak peaks.With anti-mandate protesters entering their third week of occupying the grounds of Parliament and surrounding streets, Luxon said the rationale for the mandates was rapidly diminishing.“National is strongly pro-vaccination, but the public health rationale for mandates is much less than it was just a few months ago,” he said in a statement that he went t...

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