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WELLINGTON, June 17 — New Zealand will take up to the end of the year to inoculate all those eligible for Covid-19 vaccinations, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said today, as she announced details of a vaccine campaign. The Pacific island nation shut its borders and used tough lockdown measures to...

WELLINGTON, June 17 — New Zealand will take up to the end of the year to inoculate all those eligible for Covid-19 vaccinations, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said today, as she announced details of a vaccine campaign.

About 560,000 people in the country of 5 million have received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine while about 325,000 have been given a second dose. Announcing details of the plan, she said vaccines would be allocated according to age with people over 60 offered one from July 28 and those over 55 from August 11.

Experts are being consulted on how and when the border will open and modelling is being worked on, she said.

 

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