Covid 19 coronavirus: First phase of Northland vaccine rollout nears completion 16 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Patricia Dargaville takes a forehead temperature reading at Rawene's Covid-19 testing station in August last year. Photo / Tania Whyte Patricia Dargaville takes a forehead temperature reading at Rawene's Covid-19 testing station in August last year. Photo / Tania Whyte Multimedia journalist for the Northern Advocatekarina.cooper@nzme.co.nz More than 20 per cent of Northland's population have been tested since the Covid-19 pandemic hit in March last year. And almost a year later the fight against the virus is well under way in the region as the first rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine focused on protecting Northland borders nears completion.