ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins and director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield discuss issues with the CDHB at a vaccine update on Wednesday. Vulnerable group 3 residents in the region are already facing delays, with only 2 per cent vaccinated. CDHB Covid-19 response lead Ralph La Salle denied the board was behind in its Covid-19 programme. “Canterbury DHB is not, and has no intention of delaying vaccinations to our community.” Hipkins told National spokesman for Covid-19 response Chris Bishop in Parliament on Tuesday that Canterbury had received all the Covid-19 doses it had asked for. “The Ministry of Health are providing to Canterbury the doses that they have asked for in order to fulfil the delivery plan that they have agreed with the Ministry of Health,” he said in an answer to Bishop’s question about perceived delays.