As the country braces for an Omicron outbreak, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is marking the commencement of paediatric vaccinations and the first day of booster bookings.
Ardern is joined by Associate Minister of Health (Māori) Peeni Henare at the Tāmaki Vaccination Clinic in Auckland.
Also present are Dr Jin Russell and Dr Anthony Jordan.
More than 120,000 doses of the children's Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 are ready to go at clinics around the country.
Tamariki aged five to 11 are eligible for the first of two recommended doses, eight weeks apart.
Aotearoa's first community case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 was announced yesterday. The person is a border worker in Auckland and has 50 close contacts.
The worker, who was infectious from 10 January, took two bus services in Auckland and visited a supermarket and four other stores in the city.
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Omicron
Posted on 17-01-2022 14:20 | By Kancho
Think from the amount of contact the border worker has had we will be extremely lucky if omicron doesn't break out. That it will overwhelm our hospitals, and testing and our traffic light system is said to be inadequate. So are we sleep walking again in spite of our heads up that we squandered last time round. Can't say I listen to the PM any more as the spin does my head in . Mind you very quiet when it suits huh.
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