An agreement to open the clinic was approved by the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) last week, and would open next month, Ngatai said. He expected the clinic could vaccinate 150 to 200 people per day and would focus on Māori, Pacific, and “the high needs community in east Christchurch”. As of May 6, the CDHB was operating 10 Covid-19 vaccination clinics for border and MIQ workers and their household contacts, frontline health care workers, and people who lived in communal environments where there was a higher risk of Covid-19 spreading. The risk of dying from Covid-19 was at least 50 per cent higher for Māori than people from European backgrounds, according to research published in the