26 May 2021

Covid-19 vaccine rollout for wider public now end of July

From Checkpoint, 5:15 pm on 26 May 2021

The Covid-19 vaccine roll-out for the wider public has been pushed back until the end of July - but the government denies it is a delay.

The initial schedule signalled the general population would begin receiving the Pfizer jab from July - widely interpreted as the beginning of the month.

But the Ministry of Health says not so. Here's our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch.