Ardern: 2021 will be the year of the vaccine

Ardern: 2021 will be the year of the vaccine
Rebecca Howard
The government aims to offer a timeline regarding possible covid-19 vaccines before Christmas, said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.“What I would like to do before the end of the year is pull together some of those different arrangements and agreements,” she told journalists on the sidelines of the Primary Industries Summit in Wellington.“Where we have timelines that we believe we have some level of certainty around, communicate those and we will look to do that before Christmas.”The vaccine will be a game-changer, in part...

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