Govt announces Pfizer-only national vaccine roll out

Govt announces Pfizer-only national vaccine roll out
Choosing to make just one vaccine available to all New Zealanders would “simplify our vaccine roll out”, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
Pattrick Smellie
The government announced today it has bought enough doses of the two-jab Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to inoculate the whole country against covid-19.Choosing to make just one vaccine available to all New Zealanders would “simplify our vaccine roll out”, said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a statement that acknowledged the additional challenges created by choosing a two-step vaccine requiring ultra-cold temperature storage.Roll out to the general public will start “from the middle of the year,” said Health Minister Chris Hi...