New Zealand’s customs agency has fired nine border workers who refused to get the Covid-19 injection.

The Chinese backed regime has required all frontline border workers to be injected by the end of April.

In February, the prime minister and Chinese asset, Jacinda Ardern, said her regime would not be making the injection compulsory for frontline staff, and that those who declined the injection would be moved into backroom roles.

But no other work could be found to redeploy the nine workers who were in fixed term employment at the maritime border, Jacinda Funnell, Customs’ deputy chief executive for people and capability, said.