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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has ended a press conference in Northland early after being heckled by at least two people - one of whom was claiming to be a journalist.��

Ardern and Māori-Crown relations Minister Kelvin Davis are in the region viewing the rollout of vaccinations, and were speaking to media this afternoon.��

Ardern was answering questions from reporters, saying that she had seen multiple people getting vaccinated. She was being heckled throughout the press conference by a female member of the public, as well as having her answers interrupted by an unidentified man claiming to be a journalist.��

"Sir I will shut down the press conference if this continues," Ardern told the man at one point during the exchange.��

The man continued interrupting, asking Ardern "why is the vaccine not working in Israel? And you are still pushing it".��

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister Kelvin Davis shortly before the press conference was abandoned. (Photo / RNZ)��

Ardern then told him he was being rude, to which the man responded: "It's rude to lie to the public of New Zealand."��

Ardern then shut down the press conference.��

"For our members of the gallery here, we might move to an inside venue. Unfortunately,��
we have someone who is disrupting your press conference. So, we might reconvene," she said.��

Ardern and Davis then left the press conference. The man, who said he worked for a little-known website claiming to be "a facts and��evidence based��platform ... covering the stories that many mainstream media outlets will not", continued to make unsubstantiated claims about the Government's Covid-19 response and vaccine mandates.��

He was then asked to produce his media accreditation, before flashing a card.��

Ardern is in Northland to support the region's vaccination efforts, with the region having one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country.��

She is accompanied by Davis, who announced an extra $23.3 million for eight Māori organisations and iwi aimed at boosting Māori vaccination rates, through the new $120 million Māori Communities Covid-19 Fund.��