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‘Some way to go’ for vaccinations u by Paul Campbell
While Super Saturday has raised the Covid vaccination levels across the country, Kaipara still has “some way to go before we get to 90 per cent,” says Mayor Jason Smith, after more than 600 people received the vaccine last weekend in events in Dargaville, Paparoa and Mangawhai.
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“The turnout was really great, but this represents some three per cent of Kaipara District’s eligible people getting their first or second jab,” he said. Of Saturday’s turnout, 343 vaccinations were delivered at the Te Ha Oranga event at The Warehouse car park, 119 injections in Mangawhai and 120 in Paparoa, the two latter towns visited by a second vaccination bus, which will continue to cover the eastern Kaipara communities. Additional vaccinations continued at the Normanby Street centre in Dargaville and at a marae event. In wider Northland, where there are still places of interest following a boundary-breaking Covid-positive visit from Auckland, there were no community cases as this edition went to print. There were 5,115 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine given on October 16, 2,286 as first the dose with 2,688 second doses for a total of 210,313 doses given across Northland as of last Monday morning. While Auckland remains the key barometer for lockdown levels in Northland and Waikato, which were indicated as of midnight last Monday, the ‘vaxathon’ took the city nearer to its target of 90 per cent. However, director-general of health, Ashley Bloomfield, says Covid cases will continue to rise. Before the cabinet met, he said Auckland’s border would need to stay in place until the rest of the country’s vaccination rates also moved up. For full information on Covid developments, go to northlanddhb.org.nz/ home/covid-19/covid-19-northland-hub. ¢
Change in the proportion of people who have received one or more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine October 13 v October 6
p This chart shows how each part of Kaipara District improved its vaccination rate between October 6 and 13. It also shows the percentage of the population in that area, which has had either one or two vaccination shots up until October 13.
p A bird’s eye view of the Te Ha Oranga vaccination event in The Warehouse car park
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