BREAKING: Ashley Bloomfield stepping down

BREAKING: Ashley Bloomfield stepping down
Staff reporters
The face of the government's health response to the covid-19 pandemic, Ashley Bloomfield, has announced his resignation.The director general of health since June 2018, Bloomfield will leave the post on July 29, about a year before the end of his five-year term of appointment.He became a household name in 2020 from the daily public briefings that became appointment viewing for the nation during pandemic lockdowns and subsequent developments.However, as the head of the Ministry of Health, Bloomfield also effectively had the scale and scope of...

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