Earlier headline is here:
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.