A Māori-led mobile vaccine clinic that focuses on going to emergency and transitional housing is under way in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington and is helping to curb vaccine hesitancy in the community.
In the first week of alert level 4, Kahungunu Whānau Services launched the mobile vaccine service, Waka Ora, and it set up at the Strathmore Park Community Centre yesterday.
Vaccination rates for Māori are slowly creeping up - but those under 60 are still behind other ethnicities.
Kahungunu Whānau Services chief executive Ali Hamlin-Paenga told reporter Matai O'Connor access to health services is an issue for Māori.
