Covid 19 coronavirus: New scientist group to advise Govt on vaccine rollout, border changes
7 Apr, 2021 05:50 PM
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There have been 90,200 vaccines administered to date. A total of 19,273 people have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
There have been 90,200 vaccines administered to date. A total of 19,273 people have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine.
RNZ
One of its first tasks will be to advise on a vaccine target.
The six-person group will be headed by epidemiologist Professor Sir David Skegg, and will be in place until mid next year.
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Sir David Skegg. Photo / Otago Daily Times, File
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After a short, sharp lockdown, Auckland is back under alert level 2 while the rest of New Zealand has dropped to alert level 1.
The moves comes despite three new community cases of COVID-19 being reported on Wednesday. All three, however, are connected to the original trio from the weekend and there is no evidence yet - either from community testing or wastewater testing - of any wider parallel transmission.
Of the 31 close contacts of the original cases, 30 have tested negative while the last is one of the three new positive cases. The test results of more than 360 casual-plus contacts - many from Papatoetoe High School - remain outstanding, but 1159 have tested negative. Contact tracing is now underway for the three new cases.