New Zealand Covid: Māori party likens new ‘traffic light’ system to ‘Squid Game’

Comments come after PM Jacinda Ardern said most restrictions will only be lifted when country reaches 90% vaccination

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New Zealand's new pandemic approach is a real-life Squid Game for Mori", the Mori party has said - likening plans unveiled on Friday to the viral Netflix show where contestants compete in children's games and the losers are executed.

Their comments came as the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, laid out plans to lift most restrictions when the country reached 90% vaccination - and amid concerns that the new roadmap would result in disproportionate illness and death for Indigenous people.