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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 – ABC News

New Zealand will first administer COVID-19 vaccines to quarantine personnel, frontline health workers and airline staff, as the Government formally approves its…

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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…

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