Wake Up Call: Vaccines touch down

“Staff worked late last night to pack and get the vaccine ready for shipment by road and air to district health boards and vaccination centres around the country today,” said covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins. (Image: Getty)

Staff reporters

Mon, 05 Jul 2021

Summary Travellers from Australia will need to show a negative covid test before being allowed on to flights to NZ. As the US celebrates independence from covid on July 4, NZ’s latest shipment of vaccines has arrived early, and will enable this country’s vaccine rollout to ramp up.Vaccine arrives NZ’s shipment of Pfizer vaccines has arrived, two days ahead of schedule and three days before the country ran out. “Staff worked late last night to pack and get the vaccine ready for shipment by road and air to district health...

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