{"id":710,"date":"2020-12-16T20:29:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T20:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=710"},"modified":"2020-12-16T20:29:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T20:29:01","slug":"two-new-covid-19-vaccines-secured-by-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Two new Covid-19 vaccines secured by Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storyPage first-page\">\n<p>The entire general population of New Zealand should be able to get a Covid-19 vaccination from the second half of next year, after the Government purchased two additional vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage image inline\">\n<div class=\"storyPageImage storyPageImageV2\">\n<div class=\"imageCaption\">It brings the total of pre-ordered Covid vaccine courses to 15 million, with border workers first in line and on track to be vaccinated between April and July next year.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>The Government today announced it&#8217;s bought 7.6 million\u00a0doses of the University of Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccine, which could cover 3.8 million New Zealanders. It also secured 10.7 million doses from Novatax, a US vaccine development company, which could vaccinate 5.6 million people. Both vaccines need two doses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>The two vaccines add to the\u00a0750,000 courses from Pfizer and\u00a05 million courses from Janssen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had already confirmed the vaccine would be free for the public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire general population of New Zealand should be able to get a Covid-19 vaccination from the second half of next year, after the Government purchased two additional vaccines. It brings the total of pre-ordered Covid vaccine courses to 15 million, with border workers first in line and on track to be vaccinated between April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[198,59,213],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-covid-19","tag-featured","tag-new-zealand"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}