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Covid-19 vaccine programme leader Karl Metzler, front right, poses with some of his vaccination team at the opening of the permanent vaccination clinic in Invercargill in April. He’s hopeful more Southland and Otago residents will be enrolled with GPs by the end of the vaccine roll-out.
Southern Covid-19 vaccine programme leader Karl Metzler is confident the roll-out is going to plan but said the biggest challenge will be standing up a workforce as groups get bigger.
Vaccinations for group three – people over the age of 65 or with underlying health conditions – began in May with 109,000 expected to receive their first dose in the next two months.