TLDR & TLDL: The digital vaccination pass crucial to reopening the country from early December is having an awful start. Aside from the understandable and forgivable first-day volume crashes, the vaccination pass system was condemned on its first day for being messy, glitchy and a complex user experience that could sentence the nation to weeks of IT help desk hell. (See more below the paywall fold)
Elsewhere in the news here and overseas this morning:
a Christchurch Covid case may have spread to a family of six;
a Killer Beez patching party in Masterton two weeks ago may have been a super-spreader event;
Māori health experts are predicting 6,600 Māori cases and 30 deaths by Christmas at the current pace of infections; and
British inflation hit a 10-year high overnight (See more on all these below).
Coming up later today, PM Jacinda Ardern is visiting vaccinators in Gisborne, the Reserve Bank will release closely-watched inflationary expectations survey results at 3pm, and the Ministry of Health’s IT help desk will have a busy day…
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