Claim: Twenty thousand nurses left the New Zealand health system due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Fact-check: Claim 20,000 NZ nurses walked over mandates is fanciful
Verdict: false. a total of 590 nurses had been removed, resigned or stood down at the time the vaccine mandate was lifted.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: Kate Atkinson
Date published: 2023-06-09T00:00:00