New Zealand vaccinators receive COVID-19 jab ahead of formal rollout

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New Zealand officials injected a small group of medical professionals with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, in preparation for a wider rollout over the weekend. | reuters

New Zealand officials have prioritized inoculating the country’s roughly 12,000 border and so-called Managed Isolation and Quarantine workers.

Bloomfield said a nationwide rollout, covering the country’s population of just under 5 million, will take a full year. New Zealand has been one of the most successful countries in the world to curb the coronavirus pandemic, with fewer than 2,500 COVID-19 cases since March 2020 and 26 deaths.For more information on COVID-19, call the DOH Hotline: 86517800 local 1149/1150.

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