The arrival of the Novavax vaccine in Aotearoa won't change the Thames-Coromandel mayor's Covid-19 vaccination status.

Last year, Sandra Goudie said she was not getting the Pfizer vaccine because she was waiting for Novavax injections instead.

Yesterday, the government announced a quarter of a million doses had arrived - but Goudie didn't want one.

The unvaccinated mayor is not currently allowed into council buildings - they require vaccine passes for entry - so she is chairing meetings remotely.

Goudie told RNZ today she considered getting the Novavax jab for nearly a year and decided "no thanks".

"My choices in regards to my health decisions are only my business, nobody else's."

The mayor says in some respects she is working "harder than ever before" without going into council buildings, and she is "absolutely" comfortable with her salary remaining the same.

A fellow councillor laid a code of conduct complaint last year accusing her of speaking at an anti-vaccine public meeting.

She also spoke to an anti-vax group in a 12-minute video published online.

Goudie says she has mostly had positive community feedback about her refusals to get vaccinated.

"Ninety per cent [of people] are giving me the thumbs up and ten per cent have been somewhat aggressive."

She says she has been motivated to keep a strong stance by the song 'You're the Voice' by John Farnham.

Despite widespread evidence Novavax and Pfizer Covid vaccines are safe for nationwide rollouts, and the fact Covid-19 vaccines are the most well-studied vaccines ever made, Goudie says the vaccines are "hazardous".

She says she's not nervous about catching Covid unvaccinated.

"I don't live my life in fear."

Goudie has not yet decided whether she would stand again for mayoralty.

-RNZ/Sam Olley.