# New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, says the behaviour of protesters outside Parliament in Wellington doesn’t suggest to her that the group is interested in engaging in finding a solution. The demonstrators are against the Covid-19 vaccine and mask mandates. Around 77-percent of New Zealanders have been vaccinated. Ardern says those on the forecourt of Parliament want to see the removal of all public health measures, the very measures that have kept citizens safe:
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