A clinic was planned for Ranfurly in Central Otago in late July, Southern DHB says. Fiordland Community Board chair Sarah Greaney said despite group 3 – those over 65 or at greater risk from Covid-19 – being eligible for the vaccine, the nearest clinic at present was 140km away in Gore. She had to take her husband even further, to Queenstown, to get his two shots. “But of course it has meant a four-and-a-half hour round trip to go to Queenstown to get it done, and I do know of a lot of other people who have done the same thing because they want to be vaccinated,” she said.