A Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is administered as part of the global vaccine rollout. Photo: ReutersNine days shy of a year since the country's first confirmed case, the first Covid-19 vaccine in New Zealand will be given today. The first here, and the only Medsafe-approved so far, is the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, requiring constant storage at -70C. The vaccinators are mostly nurses, now all schooled on the particulars of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. "It becomes a cryogenic chain; anything which goes below [negative] 40 goes into the cryogenic space, from a logistics perspective.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 18, 2021 16:30 UTC