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New Zealand Covid vaccines to arrive one month early, border staff to be inoculated next week – The Guardian
Jacinda Ardern says vaccination of the wider population will begin in the second half of the year
New Zealands first Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in the country ahead of schedule in a win for the government, which has been criticised for being too slow to procure them.
In a surprise announcement on Friday, the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said hundreds of thousands of vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine would be arriving early, and vaccinations for border staff would begin next Saturday.
Originally the government had said the vaccines were expected to arrive at the end of March.
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