November 15 2021 Cabinet has agreed to move Waikato to alert level 2 from midnight tomorrow - and the rollout of booster vaccination shots will start from November 29. Ardern said the number of community cases is still within the projected number at this point. The Government is due to announce more about Covid (vaccine) boosters as well as the Waikato boundary today. Ardern said New Zealand has responded to Covid-19 differently to how other countries have responded to the virus. Ardern said vaccination rates among the Pacific community had shot up in the past few months.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 14, 2021 18:58 UTC