Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a new deal with Denmark for 500,000 more doses of the Pfizer vaccine.<\/p>\n
Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield have given an update on the Covid-19 situation.<\/p>\n
The new vaccines are set to arrive in the country later this week.<\/p>\n
Ardern said this will bolster the vaccine rollout for the rest of the month, ahead of the large planned shipments in October.<\/p>\n
“Combined the Denmark and the Spain deals leave us in the strongest position possible to vaccinate at pace.<\/p>\n
“There is now nothing holding us back.”<\/p>\n
Ardern pointed to the US, where hospitals were heavily dominated by the unvaccinated.<\/p>\n
“We know the vaccine helps break chains of transmission.<\/p>\n
“People have been getting vaccinated for those around them, those they love,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said half a million Aucklanders are now fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n
“Thank you Auckland, and keep it up. You are doing the very best you can do right now to avoid future scenarios like the one we are in.”<\/p>\n
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