From tomorrow, New Zealand will do away with Covid-19 vaccine mandates for many workers - including for those working in education, police and the NZ Defence Force. Other changes already in place include the scrapping of all gathering limits in outdoor settings and the removal of the requirement for people to use the Covid-19 tracer app to scan in when entering businesses. However, New Zealanders remain polarised over the lifting of the mandates, with the latest survey from Research New Zealand showing that over one quarter of all respondents (27%) are "unhappy" with the lifting of the mandates. Many of them believe it's still too early to lift the mandates with case numbers currently being so high in this country. Research NZ Managing Partner Emanuel Kalafatelis is with us to cover off the results.
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