5. Question No. 5—COVID-19 ResponseCHRIS BISHOP (National) to the Minister for COVID-19 ResponseQuestion No. 5—COVID-19 Response5. CHRIS BISHOP (National) to the Minister for COVID-19 Response: Does he stand by all of his statements and actions?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): Yes.Chris Bishop: Are there any locations of interest that have been deliberately withheld by the Ministry of Health in relation to this most recent Wellington case similar to the four that were withheld in the Northland case in February?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: In answer to the first part of the question not to my knowledge. In answer to the assertion in the second part of the question the only exposure sites from Northland to my understanding that were not publicly released were where there was a privacy reason not to release them and where the people concerned the people at risk had been contacted directly.Chris Bishop: Why was it not listed publicly that Unity Books in Wellington was a location of interest when the district health board rang them at 9.30 a.m. yesterday and it was only put online at 11.43 a.m.?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: As I went through yesterday the team worked right the way through the night without sleeping in order to assemble the locations of interest so that they could be released as quickly as possible on Wednesday morning and they were released before 9 a.m. The details of the case were released around 6 a.m. I do want to compliment the team on the speedy work that they did trying to identify the locations of interest the extent of risk in each of those locations of interest and the public health requirements for the people who had been in those locations of interest so quickly. They did incredibly well particularly bearing in mind that the people they were contacting—they were waking them up in the middle of the night in order to get further information from them.Hon Grant Robertson: In light of that previous supplementary question does the Minister recall criticism of the Government for not letting business owners know in advance of letting the public know when their business was a site of interest?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: Yes I can recall that that was one of the criticisms. There has also been criticism today about the drip-feeding of locations of interest which is also criticism coming from the same people who have been saying we haven't been fast enough to release information about the locations of interest. It can't be both.Chris Bishop: Are there contingency plans in place in the case of community transmission in regards to vaccination in light of the Auditor-General saying yesterday It is fair to say we didn't think that the contingency planning was far enough advanced."?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: This is an area where I do disagree with the Auditor-General. The Government has made the decision that the best place for vaccines is in the arms of people. Keeping a whole lot of vaccines in a freezer as a contingency in the event that we decided it was a good thing to do surge vaccination isn't something that the Government has contemplated.Chris Bishop: So can he just confirm then that the Government has not done any detailed scenario planning or modelling with regard to what a vaccination campaign would look like in the event of community transmission?Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: No that is not what I indicated. In this particular context where we have a limited supply of vaccines stopping the vaccine roll-out to vulnerable people in other parts of the country in order to increase the vaccine roll-out in Wellington would not be consistent with good public health practice."