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Some vaccination centres had to revert to pen and paper to record people s details, as the outage caused people to lose 4G connectivity on their phones.
Network director Tony Baird said a fault in a piece of core network caused problems from about 11am until the issue was resolved about 2pm.
After it became apparent vaccination centres were affected, he said staff contacted Ministry of Health.
The ministry said the outage impacted on wait times at Covid-19 vaccination centres throughout the country, as people had to fill out forms manually.
Auckland woman Shanna Reeder said her appointment at the East Tamaki centre this morning ran 90 minutes late.
Hundreds are currently working in Managed Isolation facilities.
They are carrying the safety of a nation on their shoulders every single day.
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The vast majority do not, and will never own a home.
The vast majority can not, and will never get “ahead” unless we do something about it.
The theme of this years International Womens day is “choose to challenge”, this year we should choose to challenge the status quo.
These workers are so brave, can we match their bravery?
The Government has shown that it can raise workers to a Living Wage. It has done so for other workers such as Security Staff at MIQ facilities. Why has it not done so for these hotel workers?
A managed isolation cleaner says she s afraid to join the gym, limits her trips to the supermarket and worries all the time about passing Covid-19 onto others.
MIQ cleaners are treated like any old workers despite their stringent daily practices that are protecting the country, their union says.
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She and her colleagues are the forgotten border workers - overlooked and underpaid for the work they are doing to keep the country safe from Covid-19, she said.
Her job had changed massively since Covid-19 but her pay had not changed at all.
And unlike the job before her hotel took on managed isolation, the stresses followed her home.
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But it will be another month until the worker representatives are properly trained up and have actual legal powers to make the workplaces safer.
A unionist says she had been terrified early on for the low-paid - mostly Māori or Pasifika, often older cleaners, and other quarantine workers - when PPE was lacking. But that now, at last, government officials were meeting their legal obligations. The time it took to actually get through to them was far too long, said Unite Union s hotel organiser Shanna Reeder. It should have been top of the list. It should have been obvious.