Photo: GettyThe Covid-19 vaccine rollout for Canterbury is under close scrutiny after the district health board admitted it won't be getting started on group 4 until mid-September. The Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has told the district health board to stick to the government's timeframe, but that doesn't look likely to happen. National's Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop said it was a shambles. "We've got this very bizarre situation where the South Canterbury DHB, which has about a 10th of the population of the Canterbury DHB, has actually given more first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to people in Group 3," he said. Bishop said the Ministry of Health and the Canterbury DHB needed to say what was going on.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 07, 2021 22:52 UTC