Chris Hipkins, Ashley Bloomfield with COVID-19 vaccine, Delta outbreak update

  • 29/09/2021

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COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins is joined by Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield to provide an update on the vaccine rollout and Delta outbreak.

The Ministry of Health registered just eight new community cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, all in Auckland, after 12 were reported on Monday, 18 on Sunday and 16 on Saturday. 

So far, more than 5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine have been administered in New Zealand, 1.8 million of which were second doses. 

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