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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-495/
- Published: 2022-02-07T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-08T09:09:55.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, Health, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:12

> The Ministry of Health has backtracked on a claim by director general of health Dr **Ashley Bloomfield** that tests requisitioned from private businesses were not already in New Zealand when the Ministry took them.  
>  
> \[…\] Bloomfield **twice assured** the public that tests taken by the Ministry were “forward orders” from overseas, **not tests already in New Zealand.**  
>  
> \[…\] While no stocks of Abbott tests that are already in the country have been requisitioned, a substantial stock of Roche tests have been, a fact the Ministry now admits.  
>  
> NZ Herald

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