12 Apr 2021

Attitudes to Covid 19 vaccination on the border

From Lately, 10:20 pm on 12 April 2021

The Prime Minister announced today that 86-percent of frontline workers in New Zealand have received at least one dose of a covid vaccination leaving 538 MIQ workers unvaccinated. They must be inoculated by the end of April or be moved off the front line. Prime Minister Ardern said the strategy has been to ensure that all MIQ workers had a chance to be offered the vaccine before deploying them elsewhere if they did not. Today a third Grand Millennium MIQ worker has tested positive for Covid-19.

 Dr. Jagadish Thaker is a communications lecturer at Massey University in Wellington who has spent the past year working on understanding how people feel about Covid-19 vaccines.

The Grand Millennium managed isolation facility in Auckland.

Photo: RNZ / Jordan Bond