Border personnel must take COVID-19 vaccine after new circumstances emerge: New Zealand PM Ardern
12 April, 2021
New Zealand's Primary Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Mon (Apr 12) that persons functioning at the borders should be vaccinated by the end of this month or perhaps risk being moved out of your role, following a third coronavirus case linked to a frontline staff was reported.
New Zealand has almost eliminated the COVID-19 virus within its borders and there's been no community transmitting for more 40 days.
Nonetheless it reported a great COVID-19 locally the other day of a border employee who had missed two vaccine appointments. Two even more cases linked to they has emerged since.
"By the end of April, those not but vaccinated will not be permitted to work found in high-risk workplaces and you will be moved to other functions," Ardern explained at a news conference.
She said about 86 % of border workers have already been vaccinated.
New Zealand has started vaccinating its border and managed isolation facility workers and their family with BioNTech-Pfizer vaccines on its first phase.
Up to now it has vaccinated over 90,000 people. The united states the other day temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its citizens, following a high number of positive coronavirus conditions arriving from the South Asian region.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com