Royal Commission Covid Lessons Learned Phase 2 Report Released
AUCKLAND, 10 MARCH 2026 – The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19 Lessons Learned has released its Phase 2 report.
To the thousands of New Zealanders who gave their testimony to this inquiry, who shared their stories of loss, injury, and hardship at real personal cost, we want to acknowledge you first. Whatever this report says, your evidence is real, your experiences are real, and they are not going away.
The report runs to over 700 pages. We will review it carefully and share detailed analysis in the coming days and weeks. We are relieved it is out of the way.
Those who expected little from this process were not wrong to do so. And yet, on first reading, at least the Commission has acknowledged several things New Zealanders and NZDSOS have been raising for years: that restrictions continued longer than public health advice recommended, that Auckland’s lockdown extended beyond what officials advised was necessary, and that the Government’s own expert advisors concluded the two-dose vaccine mandate for 12 to 17 year olds was not justified due to myocarditis risks – yet that advice was never passed to the Ministers responsible, and the mandate remained in place. That last finding warrants careful scrutiny, and we will have more to say about it once we have worked through the full report.
What the report does not provide is accountability. It documents failures without naming those responsible and recommends improvements without proposing consequences for past decisions. The tens of thousands of New Zealanders who gave their testimony to this inquiry, who trusted that their stories would be taken seriously, deserved more than this.
The report takes swipes at the likes of us too, claiming it is disinformation that damages community cohesion. But we rather thought that dying needlessly was pretty disruptive too.
In many respects, this report is largely irrelevant to what we know needs to happen next. The evidence still exists, someone is still responsible for the deaths and injuries that occurred, and the next theatre, the general election, is eight months away. We will continue to pursue every possible avenue to truth and accountability.
Read our evidence and more: nzdsos.com/covid-inquiry-evidence-hub
Mike Hoskings interviewed the Commissioner 4/5 weeks ago and asked why 3-4 members of the committee had resigned. Does any one know who these members were and why they resigned ?
I received the Report on an email tonight and went directly to THAT WOMAN’s answers to questions from Grant Illingworth. I’ve listened to his style of soft questioning before and for the life of me I cannot fathom how he’s reached the position of KC. He doesn’t seem to have the hard evidence of what information and when it became known to those decision makers. The timing of who knew what when, is vital in deciding whether they made a decision based on care for the 5 million+ of us or had some other agenda in mind. Timing is everything. Are we the only ones with the OIA letters and documents with times and dates of what information was shared by whom and when?! Like Christopher James Group Manager of Medsafe NZ writing that because outcomes from taking the Pfizer injections were unknown, he didn’t agree that they’d be a good thing to use. His concerns were over ridden. Or Pfizer revealing that the mRNA gene therapy potion had not been tested for transmission – yet THAT WOMAN spouted ‘safe and effective’ ad nauseum for years and made up draconian cruel rules based on transmission by the unvaccinated. She had a group formed of four men to advise her on the measures that the govt might put into practise – she dismissed their quite considerable concerns for society over lockdowns. She had information straight from the mouths of an injured population, right on her social media page and she just closed it down. It’s hard to believe that a PM with the most amount of media staff ever (spin) wouldn’t be informed of everything that was happening in every corner of the country and have her finger on the pulse of the breakdown her measures were creating in households throughout the land.