RNZ
Northlanders are waiting on the phone for hours as they try to book appointments for their Covid-19 vaccine - while older people are being turned away as they attempt walk-in appointments.
More than a quarter of Air New Zealand’s frontline staff have not had a single Covid-19 dose and the Government doesn’t know how many other border workers are unvaccinated, months after the top priority group was first offered the vaccine.
A new Health Order which mandates border workers must have had at least their first Covid-19 vaccine only covers border workers employed by the Government and not the “wider border workforce”. So it misses roles such as airline staff and port workers. All managed isolation and quarantine staff are covered by the order.