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Covid jab on way to vulnerable
Last week the Government confirmed that the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine will be rolled out to the patients and staff of aged residential care facilities from the end of March.
These are facilities both inside retirement villages and in the wider community that look after older people who are no longer able to live independently, providing rest home, hospital or dementia level care.
Residents of these facilities will naturally get the vaccine in-house. Everyone receiving the vaccine must give consent and NZ Aged Care Association chief executive Simon Wallace says this is challenging when it comes to dementia patients – something that is also an issue for flu vaccines – and is currently being worked through.
Shane Reti: 2020 roller coaster year dominated by Covid-19
13 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Shane Reti in Parliament. The Whangīrei-based National Party list MP says MPs should have the ability to authorise travel exemptions during pandemics. Photo / NZME
Shane Reti in Parliament. The Whangīrei-based National Party list MP says MPs should have the ability to authorise travel exemptions during pandemics. Photo / NZME
FROM PARLIAMENT
This year has been a roller coaster in more ways than one and may well be defined as the coronavirus year. A challenge of biblical proportions that will sit alongside the reflections of, where were