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Dawn Chorus: 'MIQ wasn't needed over summer'
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Dawn Chorus: 'MIQ wasn't needed over summer'

Bombshell as hidden papers reveal the Ministry of Health advised the Govt in early November that MIQ wasn't needed over the summer; Nurses livid over backtrack on pay equity backpay
Bernard Hickey
Apr 19, 2022
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TLDR: The Government lost its poll lead over the summer of discontent as families remained divided by a closed border and MIQ requirements. What we didn’t know is the Ministry of Health told ministers in early November MIQ wasn’t needed.

A MOH memo from November expressly said the risk posed by international arrivals transmitting COVID-19 was no longer …

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