17 Dec 2020

Govt confirms two more Covid-19 vaccines for NZ

From Checkpoint, 6:12 pm on 17 December 2020

Two new Covid-19 vaccines have been added to the list New Zealanders could get - if they pass all their trials and tests.

The government's made deals with the British company Astra Zeneca and the US firm Novavax to buy enough jabs to cover nine million people.

Added to the existing Pfizer and Janssen deals, 15 million people could be covered. And it revealed some scenarios about how the vaccine might be rolled out - perhaps from April next year.

Health correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.