Tçnâ koe

 

Thank you for contacting the office of Hon Andrew Little MP, Minister of
Health, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Minister Responsible
for the NZSIS, Minister Responsible for the GCSB, Minister Responsible for
Pike River Re-entry and Lead Coordination Minister for the Government’s
Response to The Royal Commission’s Report into the Terrorist Attack on the
Christchurch Mosques.

 

For the latest updates on COVID-19, we encourage you to check the
dedicated [1]COVID-19 and [2]Ministry of Health websites regularly. They
will be updated as soon as new information is available.

 

Current locations of interest are set out at
[3]https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/dise....

 

To get your My Vaccine Pass online head to
[4]https://mycovidrecord.health.nz/ or for help over the phone you can
call 0800 222 478 between 8am and 8pm, 7 days a week. Those pharmacies
giving COVID-19 vaccines can also help with My Vaccine Pass face to face,
and can be found here:
[5]https://www.healthpoint.co.nz/covid-19-v....

 

For general health advice and information you can call Healthline on
Freephone 0800 611 116 anytime.

 

If you need to talk to someone about how you are feeling, you can call or
text 1737 for free at any time to talk to a trained counsellor. There is
more information available here: [6]https://1737.org.nz/.

 

While the Minister considers all correspondence to be important, and all
messages are carefully read and considered, it is not always possible to
personally reply to all emails. As such, the following guidelines apply:

 

·         If your message is for Minister Little’s advice, or if you have
copied your email to another Minister and/or Member of Parliament with
more appropriate portfolio responsibilities, then this will be noted,

·         If you have invited Minister Little to an event then a member of
staff may contact you for more information if the Minister’s attendance
might be possible,

·         If you have made a request for official information then this
will be managed in accordance with the provisions of the Official
Information Act 1982, which may include transfer to a more relevant
Minister or agency,

·         If you have made a request under the Privacy Act then this will
be managed in accordance with the principles of the Privacy Act 1993,
which may include transfer to a more relevant Minister or agency,

·         If you are a journalist then your request will be triaged by a
press secretary,

·         To find out more about Minister Little read his [7]biography or
recent [8]statements.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

Office of Hon Andrew Little MP
Reception +64 4 817 8707 | Ministerial Email [9][Andrew Little request email]
| Web [10]beehive.govt.nz | Postal Freepost Parliament, Private Bag 18
041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New Zealand

 

 

 

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Kia ora Kirsty
On behalf of Hon Andrew Little, Minister of Health, thank you for your
Official Information request of 20 January 2022.

 

You requested:
             " Please provide the exact number of deaths in NZ from covid
that did not have any underlying health conditions & who did not die of an
injury please.

Also, please provide the ages of all of these people, & their vaccination
status.”

The information requested appears to be more closely associated with the
functions and responsibilities of the Ministry of Health. Accordingly I am
transferring your request to the Ministry of Health under section
14(b)(ii) of the Official Information Act 1982.

You have the right, under section 28 of the Act, to ask the Ombudsman to
review this decision to transfer your request for information.

 

Ngā mihi nui

 

 

Steph Harding
Private Secretary (Health)

 

Office of Hon Andrew Little MP, Minister of Health, Lead Coordination
Minister for the Government’s Response to The Royal Commission’s Report
into the Terrorist Attack on the Christchurch Mosques, Minister for Treaty
of Waitangi Negotiations, Minister Responsible for the NZSIS, Minister
Responsible for the GCSB, Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry
Reception +64 4 817 8707 | Ministerial Email
[1][Andrew Little request email] | Web [2]beehive.govt.nz | Postal Freepost
Parliament, Private Bag 18 041, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160, New
Zealand

[3]https://xink.io/wp-content/themes/Xink/a...

Please note information about meetings related to the Ministers’
portfolios will be proactively released (this does not include personal or
constituency matters). For each meeting in scope, the summary would list:
date, time (start and finish), brief description, location, who the
meeting was with, and the portfolio. If you attend a meeting with the
Minister on behalf of an organisation, the name of the organisation will
be released. If you are a senior staff member at an organisation, or meet
with the Minister in your personal capacity, your name may also be
released. The location of the meeting will be released, unless it is a
private residence. The proactive release will be consistent with the
provisions in the Official Information Act, including privacy
considerations. Under the Privacy Act 1993 you have the right to ask for a
copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to
be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of
your information, or to have it corrected, or are concerned about the
release of your information in the meeting disclosure, please contact the
sender. You can read more about the proactive release policy at
[8]https://www.dia.govt.nz/Proactive-Releas...

Authorised by Hon Andrew Little MP, Parliament Buildings, Wellington 6160,
New Zealand

 

 

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Kia ora Kirsty,

 

Thank you for your request for official information which was transferred
from Hon Andrew Little, Minister of Health and received by the Ministry of
Health on 21 January 2022. The Ministry’s reference number for your
request is H202200465.

 

If you need to contact us at any stage about your request, please quote
this reference number in your correspondence. You requested:

 

“Please provide the exact number of deaths in NZ from covid that did not
have any underlying health conditions & who did not die of an injury
please.

Also, please provide the ages of all of these people, & their vaccination
status.”

 

Your request has been logged and you can expect a reply no later than 21
February 2022 as required under the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

OIA Services

Government Services

Office of the Director-General

Ministry of Health

E: [1][email address]

 

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Kia ora Kirsty,

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) transferred from Hon Andrew Little, Minister of Health and received
by the Ministry of Health on 21 January 2022. You specifically asked for:

 

"...the exact number of deaths in NZ from covid that did not have any
underlying health conditions & who did not die of an injury please.

Also, please provide the ages of all of these people, & their vaccination
status."

 

Information related to the Ministry’s reporting of COVID-19 deaths has
been outlined in a news article on the Ministry website
at: [1]www.health.govt.nz/news-media/news-items/further-information-deaths-associated-covid-19.
Please note that this data has not been updated recently due to privacy
considerations, however the Ministry does intend on updating this data in
the upcoming weeks. Further information related to these COVID-19 deaths
is withheld under section 9(2)(a) to protect the privacy of natural
persons, including deceased natural persons. I have considered the
countervailing public interest in release in making this decision and
consider that it does not outweigh the need to withhold at this time.

Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [2][email address] or by phone on 0800
802 602. 

 

Ngâ mihi 

OIA Services Team 

  

[3]Ministry of Health information releases 

[4]Unite against COVID-19 

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4. https://covid19.govt.nz/