More on the New Zealand provisional approval for the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

Earlier headline is here:

• New Zealand's first Covid-19 vaccine gets provisional approval

Adding a little more now:

• Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been provisionally approved
• first vaccinations will be for frontline healthcare and border workers
• followed by cleaners, security staff and nurses doing health checks in managed isolation facilities, customs and border officials, airline staff and hotel workers.
• broader community vaccination rolled out from the middle of the year
• it could take as long as a year to vaccinate the entire New Zealand population
• first doses of the vaccine should arrive by March

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New Zealand has ordered 15m courses of Covid-19 vaccine from four different providers. It will be free.