Inside Parliament, Minister for Covid-19 Response Chris Hipkins stressed that the pandemic is not over.

Hipkins made the comments in the debate of the Prime Minister's statement in the House this afternoon.

He referred to the number of protesters outside Parliament and the number of Covid-19 deaths experienced overseas.

"More people are dying of Covid-19 in Australia than were on the Parliamentary forecourt. Each week, more people die from Covid-19 than have been standing on the Parliamentary forecourt each week."

Hipkins also thanked police officers for protecting those working on the Parliamentary precinct.

Speaking after visiting a Covid-19 vaccination centre in Albany, Auckland, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told the group of anti-vaccine mandate protesters to 'move on'.

Ardern said it was ultimately an operational matter for police.

"Obviously every New Zealander has a right to protest, but there are also rules around what is able to happen on Parliament's forecourt and of course we would expect that people have behaviours that don't disrupt the ability of others to go on with their lives as well."

She said the majority of New Zealanders shared a similar sentiment, to keep one another safe and do as much as they could to ensure we could continue to live our lives as we did before the pandemic.

"It is not unusual to have protest activity at Parliament, that is part of our democracy, but we do need to make sure that we keep that balance with people being able to live their lives - particularly people who live in the Wellington region or work in the Wellington region. So that is of course what the police are endeavouring to do.

"I'm not going to question those who have the expertise around how to manage situations like this."

She said she had seen a number of protests in her time in Parliament and this was certainly not the largest.

The National Party confirmed it did not support the convoy protest, despite one of its MPs posting on Facebook that she wanted to thanks the protesters.

Maureen Pugh edited the post before deleting it entirely, saying she didn't know the protesters were anti-vaccination.

The party's Covid-19 spokesman Chris Bishop said he did not see the post before it was deleted.

Bishop said Pugh has apologised for her actions and that there are no anti-vaxxers in the National caucus.