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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...

Bernard Walker,   A crucial delivery of 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine has arrived in New Zealand this week, ahead of schedule. But at the same time, the vaccination of most people living in the Canterbury region has been moved back by at least two months. For the rest of the country, people in group 4 of the vaccination programme will become eligible by the end of July. But those living in Christchurch – New Zealand’s second-largest city – and the Canterbury region will only get their first vaccine dose from mid-September, at the earliest. The region’s COVID-19 response office...

05 July 2021 In a new article on The Conversation, UC’s Associate Professor Bernard Walker says the government may have to intervene if the Canterbury vaccination programme continues to fall behind. A crucial delivery of 150,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine has arrived in New Zealand this week, ahead of schedule. But at the same time, the vaccination of most people living in the Canterbury region has been moved back by at least two months. For the rest of the country, people in group 4 of the vaccination programme will become eligible by the end of July. But those living in Ch...