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Rest homes still waiting for Covid-19 vaccination start date Friday, April 9, 2021 RNZ Rest homes around the country are still waiting for a start date for Covid-19 vaccinations, despite being in a priority group that should be getting the jab about now. The Aged Care Association represents about 90 percent of rest homes in New Zealand and it wants certainty around the rollout, saying it is juggling flu jabs too. Chief executive Simon Wallace told  Checkpoint the association has about 35,000 residents and just as many staff due vaccinations, but only a handful had the Covid-...

Covid jab on way to vulnerable Last week the Government confirmed that the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine will be rolled out to the patients and staff of aged residential care facilities from the end of March. These are facilities both inside retirement villages and in the wider community that look after older people who are no longer able to live independently, providing rest home, hospital or dementia level care. Residents of these facilities will naturally get the vaccine in-house. Everyone receiving the vaccine must give consent and NZ Aged Care Association chief executive Simon Wallace says thi...

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Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook, Google Maps, Supplied / Ministry of Health, RNZ / Dom Thomas But the fallout from whether a KFC worker - who later tested positive for Covid-19 - was told of the isolation requirements has continued to garner attention, with National Party leader and ACT also chiming in. So who is correct: The PM who said these cases didn’t follow advice, or the official Unite Against Covid-19 page who said they did? Communication breakdowns like this can be the difference between Kiwis living Covid-free and a lockdown that costs New Zealand $500m a week. pic.twitter.com/yr3nJvnYdP—...

Photo: 123RF Front line border workers and their families have been at the front of the queue to get the jab. After that, non-border frontline health workers are next. Eric Henry, a resident at Summerset Falls retirement village in North Auckland's Warkworth, said older people should be the first group in the general population to get the jab. He does not question that border and health workers should be the priority groups, but he said older people should come afterwards. "After that I think there is a case for the older people to get it, because they are in the vulnerable group. The younger...