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Auckland Mayor calls for city’s residents to be at front of queue for vaccines
Auckland’s Mayor is calling for the city’s residents to be prioritised in New Zealand’s coronavirus vaccine rollout, in the wake of the city being thrown into its fourth lockdown over the weekend, costing millions of dollars a day.
Key points:
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says an infected person’s mistakes have had “devastating consequences”
- The person is said to have visited public venues despite awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test
- Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says the city loses 200 jobs per day while under lockdown
The seven-day lockdown of the population of nearly 2 million was prompted by the case of a person who had been infectious for a week but not in isolation.
The lockdown led to several major sporting and cultural events being…
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