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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine gets formal approval in New Zealand, high-risk people will be first to get the jab
New Zealand quarantine personnel, frontline health workers and airline staff will be the first to receive their COVID-19 vaccine, after the Government formally approved its use on Wednesday.
Key points:
- Authorities expect the Pfizer vaccine to arrive in the country by the end of March
- NZ has had just fewer than 2,000 confirmed cases, and 25 deaths since the pandemic began
- The country is also investigating the safety of other manufacturers’ vaccines
New Zealand’s medicines regulator last week provisionally approved the use of Pfizer Inc and Germany’s BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
“Now we’ve reached the crucial stage of approval for the first vaccine, we are in a much better position to start having a conversation with New Zealanders about how we…
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