20 May 2021

Canterbury DHB vaccines delayed as distribution trouble hits

From Morning Report, 7:09 am on 20 May 2021

The Covid-19 vaccine rollout has hit a major hurdle in Canterbury - there is not enough vaccine to start injecting the over 65s until July - months behind schedule.

Under the government's plan almost two million people across the country in Group 3 were initially supposed to start in May, then it was the end of May.

But Canterbury DHB says it won't have even finished its border workers and frontline health staff by then.

Health Correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.