By RNZ.co.nz and is republished with permission
Auckland’s Counties Manukau District Health Board has hit the vaccination target of having 90 percent of its eligible population fully vaccinated.
That means all three DHBs in the Auckland region have hit the vaccination target. Auckland DHB is now sitting on 95 percent and Waitemata DHB is on 92 percent.
Counties Manukau has the second biggest eligible Māori population for a DHB and the biggest eligible Pacific population in the country.
DHB chief executive Margie Apa attributed it to the hard work of Māori and Pacific health providers and community organisations who’ve collaborated on the vaccine rollout.
Six DHBs are now 90 percent fully vaccinated.
The following DHBs are all close, on 89 percent fully vaccinated (with numbers required to get to 90 percent)
- Midcentral (1755 doses to go)
- Wairarapa (395 to go)
- Nelson Marlborough (1905 to go)
- South Canterbury (750 to go)
New Zealand is 7417 doses away from being nationally 90 percent fully vaccinated.
