Covid-19 vaccine stocks will be rationed for the next few weeks to try to avoid New Zealand running out. At the start of this week, New Zealand only had 189,660 doses of vaccine in the country, almost half the total available a fortnight ago. Clunky bureaucracy, such as an inefficient booking administration system and maintaining the nationally mandated Covid-19 register, meant twice as many staff as normal were needed to run vaccine clinics, he said. SDHB Covid-19 vaccine roll-out incident controller Hamish Brown said booking capacity in the region needed to be managed to cope with the estimated 110,000 people in Group 3. "We are not anticipating the need to reschedule appointments based on vaccine supply issues."

Source: Otago Daily Times June 11, 2021 16:30 UTC