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Covid 19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins explains why he did not put Christchurch into a snap lockdown given the two positive cases.
He told Lisa Owen that requiring vaccination for those travelling across the Auckland boundary is "certainly an issue that's under discussion."
It cannot be done immediately, he said, as there are goods that need to be moved in and out of the region.
Hipkins said he thinks there would be people in the trucking industry who aren't keen on mandatory vaccination to cross the boundary, but he has no knowledge of any representations from the trucking industry expressing that.