3 Feb 2021

Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine gets safety tick for NZ

From Checkpoint, 5:07 pm on 3 February 2021

A Covid-19 vaccine has been approved for use in New Zealand, but it's still unclear when it will get here.

Medsafe has deemed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine safe for use, giving it provisional approval with 58 conditions.

The Prime Minister says those most at risk are first in line and everyone else will need to wait for more doses to arrive, and more vaccines to be approved.

Health correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.