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'Appalling': Vulnerable Aucklanders forced to abandon vaccination plans due to queues, confusion at inoculation sites


Appalling : Vulnerable Aucklanders forced to abandon vaccination plans due to queues, confusion at inoculation sites
Newshub
9 hrs ago
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Matt Hannant, the director of the Auckland COVID-19 vaccine programme
The head of Auckland s COVID-19 vaccination programme has been forced to apologise after older, vulnerable New Zealanders gave up waiting for the crucial jab due to long queues and disorganisation. 
One woman faced a five-hour wait, with others saying the process is too disorderly. 
But it s not just those wanting vaccines who are frustrated and angry - staff are too. 
Outside a busy vaccination site on Friday, Newshub attempted to conduct an interview with a woman yet to have her inoculation. Newshub was not on the site s grounds, but across the road on a footpath. ....

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COVID-19: Vulnerable Aucklanders forced to give up waiting for vaccination due to queues, confusion at inoculation sites


However, tensions began to rise when the security guard claimed Newshub was disturbing the vaccination efforts.
The woman and her partner had booked an appointment, but left due to queues and confusion over parking. 
Appalling, appalling - but that s this Government for you isn t it, the woman said.
They ve had a year to plan this. They haven t even got the local doctors involved in doing the injections, said her partner.
At another site in Mt Wellington, people queued outside for hours.
But Mary Winton s husband couldn t. He didn t want to miss a specialist appointment, so left without receiving the critically-important injection. ....

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