MINISTRY OF HEALTH
A group of vaccinators gave and received the first Covid-19 vaccinations in New Zealand on Friday, January 19.
On February 28 last year New Zealand registered its first case of Covid-19 and our lives were never the same again. People
Stuff spoke to in those earliest days reflect on the year since, and we ask: What next? By Virginia Fallon.
May Moncur knew what was coming, but nobody would listen.
When her flight from Hong Kong landed in New Zealand, the Auckland employment advocate says it was like entering a different world where the virus she’d seen overseas didn’t exist. Her waiting husband was bemused by the N95 mask she’d worn the entire flight, and told her to take it off.