Photo: RNZ /The Government must explain to New Zealanders what it knows, what it doesn't and what it will do after people were potentially given saline instead of the Covid vaccine, opposition parties say. It indicates people may have been given saline - a salt water solution - instead. He also said the government needed to come clean if there were other instances of this kind of mistake. "People have a right to know because confidence in the vaccine rollout is critical to New Zealand success in getting on top of Covid." It resulted in six people receiving an ultra-low dose of the vaccine and may not have been vaccinated.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 25, 2021 00:00 UTC