Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge and cameraman Nate McKinnon have the story.
The New Zealand-Cook Islands bubble has been open for three days now, but this morning marked Captain Tama s Lagoon Cruises first new booking.
It is one down and hopefully many more to come, but Antonia Poa was pumped nonetheless. Getting into my computer again, I was like what is my username, what is my password? So that took a little while, then my phone rang and I took the booking, and I was like okay where does it go again? For how many? But it was like riding a horse again, it s all good again, I m on to it. We re running the cruise on Friday.
The Cook Islands' Covid-19 vaccination programme is now in full swing with about 600 people receiving the first Pfizer jab.
It may also be a challenge, with some of the 10,000 eligible Cook Islanders saying they want more answers about the vaccine, before taking it.
That's despite a months-long campaign by health officials to get citizens onboard.
Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge and cameraman Nate McKinnon have the story.