Friday, 30 July 2021, 1:43 pm
More than 80 percent of Rakiura Stewart Island’s
eligible residents have had at least one dose of the
COVID-19 vaccine after 257 people were vaccinated at a
successful two-day clinic there this week.
“We’re
thrilled that so many people embraced this opportunity to
get vaccinated in their own community and we got a lot of
positive feedback that residents were very pleased we came
to them,” clinic lead Nadine Goldsmith, of Awarua Whānau
Services, said today (30 July).
A further 52 people
from Rakiura Stewart Island’s 385 eligible population had
already received their vaccination elsewhere, according to
COVID-19 immunisation records.