At-risk workers should be vaccinated sooner in NZ

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2021-03-12 00:01

New Zealand

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Researchers are calling on the Ministry of Health to speed up the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines to at-risk workers in New Zealand - particularly managed isolation and quarantine facility workers and frontline health staff. They say current plans are leaving these people at risk for too long, and that PPE and workplace practices are not protective enough in the meantime.