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Wednesday 17 February 2021
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Covid vaccine plans for our region Jenny Nicholson Reporter
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Plans are in place for local port workers and their direct household workers to receive the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccine has been approved and workers at New Zealand’s bigger ports will be vac-
cinated first followed by smaller ports like Nelson, according to Nelson Bays Primary Health Organisation’s Immunisation Facilitator Jen Cederman. However, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH) website, if at any time there is widespread community transmission of covid-19, the priority of who will be
vaccinated first would change. This would see over-65s, those living in long term residential care facilitites, and those with underlying conditions and disabilities going to the top of the queue. Jen Cederman said that the Pfizer vaccine will be stored in Christchurch as it must be kept at -70 degrees. Once it leaves the
facility, it will be kept at 2 to 8 degrees, and must be given within four to five days. “Logistically it is tight planning and ordering based on who is going to receive it,” she says. She said there were 400 plus Port workers and contacts in the Nelson Tasman region who would be vaccinated, but exact numbers of
household contacts aren’t known. If the numbers at the clinics don’t exactly meet the doses available, healthcare workers may be vaccinated so that no vaccine is not wasted. The PHO will order the vaccine and run the clinic in conjunction
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Lake Rotoiti will roar to the sound of V8s next month when the New Zealand power Boat association hold their championships. Photo: Supplied.
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