24 Feb 2022

"Get vaccinated!" Pasifika urged as Omicron numbers soar

From , 6:02 am on 24 February 2022

Pasifika peoples are being urged to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as people from the community make up almost half of  the current Omicron cases in New Zealand.

Infection rates continue to break daily records, with the ministry of health reporting three-thousand, two hundred and ninety-seven new infections on Wednesday.

That's 451 more than Tuesday.          

RNZ Pacific reporter Susana Suisuiki spoke with ministry's director of Pacific Health Gerardine Clifford-Lidstone and began by asking her what the latest figures were for Pasifika.

There was a steady stream of cars pulling up for saliva testing in Castlecliff today at the Inspire Manaaki Whānau Centre's pop-up testing station.

Photo: Supplied/ Moana Ellis