3 Mar 2021

No new Covid-19 community cases - Wednesday latest details

From Checkpoint, 5:18 pm on 3 March 2021

More than half of Aotearoa's border workers have received their first Covid-19 jab as well as some of their family members.

As of midnight Tuesday, nearly 9,500 people had been been vaccinated in New Zealand.

The Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says a third batch of Pfizer vaccines arrived in the country yesterday afternoon.

It brings the total number of doses which have landed to 200,000.

Mr Hipkins joins Lisa Owen to discuss the latest.