Photo / RNZBy RNZSome rural doctors, nurses and frontline health workers are turning down a Covid vaccine because they would have to take hours out of their busy day to get one. The Ministry of Health has said it is purchasing dozens of smaller freezers to help it roll out the vaccine to smaller centres when the time comes. The vaccine has yet to be rolled out at all in four largely rural areas including the West Coast, Wairarapa, Manawatū (MidCentral DHB) and Whanganui. Bolden worried it was another sign of inequities for rural people in the vaccine rollout. Wairarapa DHB and MidCentral DHB said any border workers living in the regions could be vaccinated at their workplaces.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 17, 2021 19:59 UTC