What's good for the Aussies is good for the Kiwis.
Act leader David Seymour is challenging our vaccine response to Covid, after Australia has announced non-emergency approval for Pfizer's vaccine, with rollout in late February.
Seymour told The Country's Jamie McKay our Government needed to give a reason for ourslow progress.
He said they've tried to say the delay is with Medsafe, but the Australian equivalent has approved the vaccine as safe.
"Why has it taken Medsafe and New Zealand longer, and if it is taking them a long time, what do they know that the Australians don't? Maybe we should be warning the Aussies."
The move comes as New Zealand is contending with a potential resurgence of Covid-19 in the community, after a 56-year-old woman who left managed isolation after two negative tests later tested positive.
Seymour said the woman should be praised for doing the right thing, as her assiduous use of the Covid Tracer App meant we could avoid a potential lockdown.
"If she hadn't been a 'super scanner', we wouldn't know these 30 locations. She could have spread it at those locations and we would be facing a full blown outbreak with absolutely no hope."
