12 Sep 2022

Professor Rod Jackson on end of Covid traffic light system

From Checkpoint, 5:27 pm on 12 September 2022

At midnight the government's pulling the plug on its covid traffic light system.

That means the only place you'll have to wear a mask is health and aged care facilities - including pharmacies.

Only Covid-positive people will need to continue isolating for seven days. Household contacts no longer need to.

And all vaccine mandates end in a fortnight - on September 26. Auckland University epidemiologist Professor Rod Jackson talks to Lisa Owen.