New Zealand Covid vaccines to arrive one month early, border staff to be inoculated next week
by Eleanor de Jong in Queenstown from World news | The Guardian on (#5E31Q)
Jacinda Ardern says vaccination of the wider population will begin in the second half of the year
New Zealand's first Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in the country ahead of schedule in a win for the government, which has been criticised for being too slow to procure them.
In a surprise announcement on Friday, the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said hundreds of thousands of vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine would be arriving early, and vaccinations for border staff would begin next Saturday.
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