Twelve vaccinators will tend 242 vaccination booths at the Vodafone Events Centre. The events centre is set up with 242 vaccination booths which are tended to by 12 vaccinators each day of the event. On Friday, NRHCC programme director Matt Hannant said additional registration staff had been brought in after people arrived early for their appointments, resulting in a backlog. People were asked to arrive at the time of their appointment, so they can register quickly to help manage flow, he said.
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Some queues formed at the mass vaccination event on Friday as people showed up early for their appointments.
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Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio getting his vaccine in south Auckland in May this year. “It’s not lost on me that there is a major part of our community we’ve got to get vaccinated.” Sio said the Ministry of Pacific Peoples helped the Northern Region Health Co-ordination Centre (NRHCC) put the event together. “Early reports suggest there have been a number of busloads that have gone out there with Pacific communities,” he said. Early hesitations about the vaccine among the Pacific population, which numbers about 400,000, have been put to rest, Sio said, with church-based weekend vaccine clinics proving a successful method.
Mass vaccination day 1: False start but recovery for Olympics of vaccination Fri, 30 Jul 2021, 5:16PM
The delays which plagued people keen to get a jab this morning appear to have gone as the first day of the country s first mass vaccination event comes to a close. Photo / Michael Craig
Mass vaccination day 1: False start but recovery for Olympics of vaccination Fri, 30 Jul 2021, 5:16PM
It may have been a false start for the Olympics of vaccination in South Auckland today, but it appears the country s first mass vaccination effort is back on track.
After an efficient beginning this morning at the vaccination site at the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau, people booked for a jab were soon waiting more than an hour at the Manukau Institute of Technology building where people were registered and then bussed to the centre.