Ministry of Health data released on Wednesday shows while health boards are vaccinating at 103 per cent to overall target, six DHBs are lagging behind. Wairarapa DHB came in last, hitting just 89 per cent of the target, while Nelson Marlborough DHB is the highest performing, at 146 per cent. To date, Auckland’s three DHBs have done 28,000 fewer vaccines than planned, while the other main centres of Capital & Coast and Hutt Valley (100 per cent) and (Canterbury 103 per cent) are at least hitting target.
Group 2 – high risk frontline workers and people living in high-risk places – currently accounts for the bulk of the country’s vaccination coverage, with 517,361 people having had their first dose.
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Dangerous prisoner Uditha Punchihewa flees Hutt Hospital in a gown after escaping Corrections custody. (Video first published in 2019). In the aftermath a “full operational review” was carried out, which found the Corrections officer had not used an insert which helped cuffs fit people with smaller wrists, a spokesman said. “As a result of the operational review, additional training was provided to all relevant staff at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility in the requirement of using and application of high security handcuffs,” the spokesman said. Staff are also receiving additional training in temporary handcuff removal policy and procedures, he said.
Judge Sanjay Patel reduced the sentence after Epiha, appearing via an audio-visual link at Manukau District Court, entered an early guilty plea to the charge.
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Katrina Epiha escaped from custody at Middlemore Hospital last year and led police on a two-week chase. Epiha broke free from custody officers around 12.30am on September 11 last year, then led police on a 13-day manhunt. She was eventually found on September 24, holed-up at a home in West Auckland. Back in custody, Epiha admitted she had purposely injured her hand with the intention to escape, after she was denied compassionate leave to attend her cousin’s tangi.