The Prime Minister can't give assurances New Zealand's hospitals and ICU's will hold up in the Omicron outbreak.
New modelling predicts daily infections could climb sharply in the coming weeks and sounds a warning about ICU capacity over the next few months.
There are also calls for the booster gap to be shortened immediately to give New Zealanders the best defence when Omicron hits.
Here's our political editor, Jane Patterson.
