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Another update from Tess McClure: New Zealand is opening a “travel corridor” from Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu, to allow seasonal workers into the country without quarantine.
New Zealand’s horticultural sector is highly dependent on seasonal workers from the Pacific, and this would allow them to enter New Zealand without having to spend two weeks in government’s managed isolation and quarantine facilities. All three countries have avoided community transmission of Covid-19.
New Zealand had its first mass-vaccination event over the weekend, with more than 15,500 people getting a shot over three days, our correspondent Tess McClure writes.
Organisers told RNZ the event was a “huge success,” but that they would examine whether there were ways the process could be improved before it was replicated. Covid-19 response minister Christ Hipkins previously called the event a “prototype” for the country to test the mass-vaccination process and get it right.
