Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy are 'essential workers', New Zealand PM tells kids


In a heart-warming address to children in New Zealand, prime minister Jacinda Ardern told them not to worry if the Easter Bunny didn't show up as usual for the upcoming Easter celebrations.

"We do consider both the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny to be essential workers... It's a bit difficult at the moment for the bunny to perhaps get everywhere, ” she said on Monday, at a press conference to address the Coronavirus Level 4 alert the country is under.

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