'Sorry sunshine, wrong place': New Zealand deputy PM tells off Covid conspiracy theorist – video

Winston Peters has rebuked a coronavirus sceptic at an election campaign event in Tauranga. New Zealand's deputy prime minister was answering questions from an audience on Tuesday when the unidentified man asked: Where is your evidence that there is a virus that causes this disease?'

Here's someone who gets up and says the Earth is flat",' Peters responded. Sorry sunshine, wrong place.' New Zealanders go to the polls on Saturday 17 October

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