ISSUE
Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
The race to get 90 percent of Aotearoa vaccinated against Covid-19 is still on, but people are being reminded it is a marathon and not a sprint.
Only five district health boards have hit the milestone for first jabs: Capital and Coast, Auckland, Waitemata, Canterbury, and, just yesterday, Southern DHB.
But others are tantalisingly close with just a few thousand jabs to go.
Counties Manukau District Health Board is on the home stretch to meeting the 90 percent first dose milestone, only 3951 injections away.
It is a target that would bring the entire Auckland region across the line.
Their response is being overseen by the Northern Regional Health Coordination Centre, a collective of Northland district health boards and the three in Auckland.
Clinical director Anthony Jordan said the vaccination effort would not stop at 90 percent.
"We're going to continue to get people vaccinated, regardless of what the target is," Dr Jordan said.
"Our aspiration is to provide vaccination to protect everyone in the population who needs, and wants, to be vaccinated."
He said they were having to explore why people did not always show up for the second dose or were waiting beyond the recommended window between doses.
"We want people to come back at the earliest possible time to get their second dose.
"So anywhere after that 21 days, three-week mark is an appropriate time to come back and get your dose."
The race to get 90 percent of Aotearoa vaccinated against Covid-19 is still on, but people are being reminded it is a marathon and not a sprint.
Only five district health boards have hit the milestone for first jabs: Capital and Coast, Auckland, Waitemata, Canterbury, and, just yesterday, Southern...
The race to get 90 percent of Aotearoa vaccinated against Covid-19 is still on, but people are being reminded it is a marathon and not a sprint.
Only five district health boards have hit the milestone for first jabs: Capital and Coast, Auckland, Waitemata, Canterbury, and, just yesterday, Southern DHB.
But others are tantalisingly close with just a few thousand jabs to go.
Counties Manukau District Health Board is on the home stretch to meeting the 90 percent first dose milestone, only 3951 injections away.
It is a target that would bring the entire Auckland region across the line.
Their response is being overseen by the Northern Regional Health Coordination Centre, a collective of Northland district health boards and the three in Auckland.
Clinical director Anthony Jordan said the vaccination effort would not stop at 90 percent.
"We're going to continue to get people vaccinated, regardless of what the target is," Dr Jordan said.
"Our aspiration is to provide vaccination to protect everyone in the population who needs, and wants, to be vaccinated."
He said they were having to explore why people did not always show up for the second dose or were waiting beyond the recommended window between doses.
"We want people to come back at the earliest possible time to get their second dose.
"So anywhere after that 21 days, three-week mark is an appropriate time to come back and get your dose."
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