Anti-Covid vaccine mandate protesters chase New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern outside school

Incident comes a month after prime minister's vehicle was chased and forced on to a curb by demonstrators

A group of shouting protesters have chased the New Zealand prime minister's van down a driveway as she visited a Christchurch primary school, amid tensions over increasingly volatile anti-vaccine mandate protests.

Jacinda Ardern, who was visiting a primary school in Christchurch, was met by a crowd of people shouting shame on you" and traitor". Some held signs saying that the prime minister would be put on trial" and held responsible", and one man brandished a fabricated arrest warrant - references to conspiracy theories that a cohort of world leaders and powerful people are secretly using vaccines to commit a genocide, and would soon be put on trial and hanged for treason.