30 Apr 2021

MIQ boss details deadline for border worker vaccinations

From Checkpoint, 5:21 pm on 30 April 2021

About 50 of the country's border workers also appear to have refused the covid vaccine - as the deadline for all staff to be immunised nears.

As of midnight tonight, anyone working in MIQ facilities or government agencies at the border will need to have had at least one of their vaccines.

Joint Head of Managed Isolation and Quarantine Brigadier Jim Bliss told our reporter Nita Blake-Persen it's a big milestone for the border workforce.