Health
Coronavirus: COVID-19 vaccine programme ‘ready to roll’, first jabs on Friday – Chris Hipkins – Newshub
Ahead of the first round of vaccinations for border and MIQ workersm those who’ll be administering the jabs will be vaccinated.
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield, appearing with Hipkins, said vaccines will only be shipped to local vaccination centres daily based on how many bookings they have, to “minimise any potential wastage”.
At the time the Government placed the order with Pfizer, modelling suggested around 15 percent of the doses purchased will be lost to wastage.
“Of course we now have all the infrastructure in place… and knowledge about how to use it and have tested the cold chain, we will be looking…
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