Get Jabbed or Get Sacked: Serving Members of the New Zealand Defence Force Pressured To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine

Get Jabbed or Get Sacked: Serving Members of the New Zealand Defence Force Pressured To Receive COVID-19 Vaccine
New Zealand Army personal guard the front of a hotel in Auckland's CBD which is used as a COVID-19 isolation facility on Sept. 7, 2020, in Auckland, New Zealand. Fiona Goodall/Getty Images
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Serving members of the New Zealand Defence Forces (NZDF) have accused the country’s defence forces of applying increasingly hostile pressure on NZDF staff to get a COVID-19 vaccination as the pacific nation rolls out the CCP virus vaccines.

The issue was revealed in an undisclosed letter sent to Minister of Defence Peeni Henare, obtained by Stuff.co.nz, that outlines how unvaccinated uniformed staff members received unfair treatment and undue coercion around the inoculation.
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