The health ministry is downplaying the highly-infectious new XBB.1.5 variant, while the Labour government continues to defend the homicidal policy of mass infection.
With another surge of cases over the Christmas period, New Zealand’s COVID-19 related death toll over the past year has reached nearly 2,500 since Labour scrapped its zero-COVID policy in October 2021.
An epidemiologist is warning New Zealand needs to start preparing now for an expected influx of winter illnesses, based on what the northern hemisphere is