A 15-year-old was among queues of people at the opening of Auckland's first drive-thru vaccination centre at a marae today.
Papakura Marae in the city's south is hoping to vaccinate 500 people a day.
Māori GP Matire Harwood and teenage son Te Rangiura Royal were ecstatic to be vaccinated at a place they felt at home.
It comes as Labour's Māori MPs fronted up at select committees this morning, and accepted the government's pandemic response could have served tangata whenua better.
Te Aniwa Hurihanganui has the story.
