Rollout on track, but some DHBs lagging

Rollout on track, but some DHBs lagging
About 7% of the population has now received at least one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Andy Fyers
About 84,000 doses of covid-19 vaccine were administered in New Zealand in the past week.This brings the total number of doses delivered to 389,000, with about 120,000 people having received two shots.Overall, the rollout is ahead of schedule by about 23,000 doses as of May 9.Vaccinators delivered an average of 12,000 doses per day, an increase from about 10,000 per day in the previous week.To meet the initial target of 1.16 million doses by the middle of the year, about 15,000 doses per day will need to be delivered, on average, between now an...

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