New Zealand has secured a sufficient number of Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine doses to immunize the entire population of the country after ordering additional 8.5 million doses, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday. Under the initial agreement with the developer, the island nation secured 1.5 million doses of the vaccine to immunize some 750,000 people. On Monday, the government announced it ordered additional doses to cover the entire population of about 5 million. According to the prime minister, the government decided to make Pfizer its primary vaccine provider due to the fact that the developer’s vaccine has proved to be about 95-percent effective at preventing COVID-19. SMS ‘NEWS’ to 20153Apart from that, the country has ordered vaccine doses from other developers, but they can be used in 2022 at the earliest.

Source: Daily Nation March 08, 2021 06:33 UTC