Health minister resigns after coronavirus failures and beach trip just weeks before general election
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Picture: KAI SCHWOERER/GETTY IMAGES
“It has become increasingly clear to me that my continuation in the role is distracting from the government's overall response to Covid-19 and the global pandemic,” Clark, who was criticised for taking his family on a beach trip and driving to a mountain biking track, said. But blunders by her ministers have drawn claims from the opposition there is a lack of talent in her cabinet, a potentially damaging charge ahead of the September election.
Ardern declared in early June that New Zealand had eliminated coronavirus, though she warned there would almost certainly be new cases, as she lifted social distancing restrictions.
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