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United for Super Saturday By Mary Anne Gill
Waipā will look to cement its place at the top of the Waikato Covid vaccination table on ‘Super Saturday’. More than 40,100 people in Waipā had their first doses by Wednesday morning. At 82.7 per cent, that puts the district well ahead of Hamilton in second place on 78.9 per cent. Deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk said she wants the district to break through the 90 per cent barrier after Super Saturday and to encourage residents to do that, the district council, Waikato DHB and Chambers of Commerce in Te Awamutu and Cambridge were organising several celebratory activities. She was speaking ahead of
Where to get the jab The News was provided with no information, either through media releases or advertising about where Waipā people should go to get vaccinated on Super Saturday, so senior reporter Mary Anne Gill got on the phone to ask. We do not suggest this is a complete list. Cambridge Cambridge Medical Centre, 48 Alpha Street, 9am-2pm. Unichem Family Health Pharmacy, Hamilton Road, 9.30am-3.30pm. Cambridge Community Marae, Pope Terrace, Leamington 9am-4pm. Te Awamutu Waikato Vaccination Centre, 244 Arawata Street, 9am-4pm. Unichem Marshalls Pharmacy, 156 Teasdale Street 9am-5pm. Sanders Pharmacy, 670 Cambridge Road 9.30am-4.30pm.
yesterday’s announcement that Waikato would remain at Level 3 until 11.59pm Monday. Nga Hau E Wha (Cambridge Community Marae) committee member Kiri Gray said she and others from the Leamington marae would “strum for the cause” with their Ukulele Club. Māori vaccinations continue to lag – 51.1 per cent of the eligible Waipā Māori population were vaccinated by Wednesday morning. “Every parent has been told to get vaccinated and to get their teenagers vaccinated,” she said. “We’ll do whatever we need to do to.” Mayor Jim Mylchreest said Waipā needed to come together and get vaccinated and challenged the district to live up to its moniker. “[It would] be great if Waipā: Home of Champions had the highest vaccination rate across the country.” In a message of support from the DHB, chief Nursing and Midwifery officer Sue Hayward, who lives in Cambridge, paid tribute to nurses and support people who were giving up their time and other commitments to “be the ones who are making sure we can have a healthier future.” Super Saturday and the ongoing vaccination drive would ensure every person is protected and able to look forward to a life not destroyed by a preventable disease, said Hayward. MPs have put political differences aside to back Super Saturday and encourage people to get vaccinated. The News has been approached this week by Labour’s Angela Roberts and Taranaki King Country
We need you to get vaccinated: front to back: Kiri Gray, member of marae committee; Ian Grant, Rotary president; Warren Beard, Lions president; Liz Stolwyk, deputy mayor; Kelly Bouzaid, Cambridge Chamber of Commerce; Ian Crabb, Lions Club. MP Barbara Kuriger, National – and they are singing from the same hymn sheet. Kuriger, National’s rural spokesperson said farmers and their teams had been busy doing their own thing, “but we’re at the end of calving and lambing. Now is the time for them to ensure that they and their families, as well as
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their staff, are protected.” Roberts said adjusting to the reality of having Delta arrive in Waikato had been hard. “This time around, as well as making sure that everyone is safe, has food and financial support, we also need to get tested and most importantly, get vaccinated. Both MPs also referred to some
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of the hysterical claims being made about the vaccine and vaccinations. “If you are already vaccinated, you still have a job to do - talk to your whanau and your mates,” Roberts said. “There is a lot of great information on the Covid-19 website to answer all those valid questions that make us uncertain.”
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