Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed she will take the Covid-19 vaccine in public, but she wants those who work in the frontlines to be vaccinated first as they are "the priority".
In her post-Cabinet media conference this afternoon, the Prime Minister announced that Auckland will join the rest of the country at alert level 1 from midnight tonight, and gave an update on the vaccine rollout programme in New Zealand, after it began on Friday.
Asked whether she is willing to be vaccinated publicly, Ardern said she will, when it's her turn.
"I am ready and willing to be vaccinated and I absolutely will be," Ardern said.
"The important thing for me though was to prioritise those at the greatest risk. I am not at the greatest risk. Those we needed to look after are our frontline border workers, the people who are coming face to face potentially with Covid every day, they're the priority."
