Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand’s supplies of the Covid vaccine are about to “get very tight”. Stocks of vaccine available for distribution have fallen below 100,000, a chart supplied by the Ministry of Health shows. Stock levels
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Covid-19 coronavirus: Medsafe approves Pfizer vaccine for New Zealand 12-15 year olds
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has welcomed Medsafe’s “very carefully considered” provisional approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 to 15. Previously it had only been approved for those aged over 16, but Pfizer trials in April showed 100
Covid-19 coronavirus: Stewart Island weak positive result, Jacinda Ardern to reveal vaccine booking details
A person on Stewart Island has returned a weak positive Covid-19 test result. Officials are now investigating whether it is an historic case or a false positive test result. The Ministry of Health said a person with an “indeterminate test
Covid 19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins and Ashley Bloomfield give vaccine update
Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said there have been more than 388,000 vaccines administered across New Zealand. 120,000 of those have had their second doses. Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said there is one new Covid-19 case in MIQ
Covid 19 coronavirus: NZ vaccine numbers update; $1 million to help India’s virus response
There will be enough Covid vaccines for everyone in New Zealand – but Kiwis will need to be patient in some cases, Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall says. In total about 232,000 vaccine doses have been administered so far. There
COVID-19: Oxford vaccine chief assures AstraZeneca jab is safe – as more nations suspend use over clotting concerns
The head of the Oxford University vaccine group has assured people the AstraZeneca vaccine does not cause blood clots as a growing number of countries suspend use of the jab. Professor Andrew Pollard, whose team developed the vaccine with AstraZeneca,
A Vaccine Road Trip
Want to get The Morning by email? Here’s the sign-up. Good morning. The Biden administration has a huge amount of work to do to get the virus under control. I took a 1,600-mile road trip this week that has left
COVID-19: Moderna vaccine approved by EU drugs regulator
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use by the EU’s drug regulator. The decision by the European Medicines Agency came on the same day as the Netherland’s began administering its first doses against coronavirus. EMA executive director Emer Cooke
Companies crucial to vaccine distribution are seeing a flurry of investments.
Until recently, the temperature-controlled storage and shipping of pharmaceutical products, known as the “cold chain,” was a relatively sleepy corner of the health care industry. But the virus, and the temperature-sensitive vaccines that are poised to combat it, have brought
COVID vaccine roll-out turns page on tiers rebellion – but ‘deeper mistrust’ growing around PM
Almost a year living with COVID, finally on Wednesday came a genuinely brilliant breakthrough: the UK regulator became the first in the world to approve the Pzifer-BioNTech vaccine, with the roll-out of jabs to the most vulnerable in our society