How New Zealand’s new vaccine plan will create a ‘two-tier society’

Jacinda Ardern unveils traffic-light system that will grant more rights to fully jabbed people

Jacinda Ardern
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The UK and other countries are being urged to follow New Zealand’s lead in creating “two different classes of people” by granting more freedoms to those fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

The call comes after New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was asked by a journalist whether her nation’s new traffic light system would result in a social divide in which “If you’re vaccinated, you have all these rights”. Ardern confirmed “that is what it is”.

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