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Government agencies are gearing up to combat a barrage of vaccine-related scams expected to hit during the Covid-19 immunisation campaign.
OPINION: It looks like we ll be vaccinated by the end of the year - those of us who believe in science, that is. On Friday, a little ahead of a previous promised schedule, the government announced it will be just a week before the first New Zealanders - border workers - will begin offering their upper arms for a tiny jab, and take the first step to joining the unicorn group of around 160 million people worldwide, who have received at least the first dose.
Friday, 12 February 2021, 5:54 pm
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is urging
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to invest time into hearing
real stories from frontline MIQ nurses and other health
workers.
The Prime Minister has stated publicly that
frontline MIQ workers are being prioritised, but NZNO
believes the Government is not listening to nurses’ voices
so there is little trust on the part of these health
workers. During the first and second
waves of COVID we don’t feel that the Ministry of Health
responded to the matters we raised in a timely way. NZNO has
repeatedly alerted the Government to issues of concern to