Three towns and one district have now surpassed 90 per cent of their populations having at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Photo / Michael Craig
Three towns and one district have now surpassed 90 per cent of their populations having at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Photo / Michael Craig
Three towns and one district have now exceeded 90 per cent of their populations having at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
As of Tuesday, Queenstown (94.8 per cent), Wellington (92.9 per cent), Selwyn District (92.9 per cent) and Dunedin (91.7 per cent) had all achieved the target.
Aucklandis sitting just shy of that with 88.5 per cent.
Super Saturday appears to have had a big effect in Ashburton. It has had one of the lowest vaccination rates throughout the rollout but jumped from 76 per cent with one dose last Thursday, to 85.5 per cent on Tuesday.
Last month, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that having 90 per cent of the eligible population fully vaccinated could eliminate any need for tough stay-at-home orders and see restrictions eased.
A further push is still needed but the four towns are well on their way to achieving this.
Dunedin just needs another 13.1 per cent of residents to have their second dose to reach 90 per cent full vaccination.
In data supplied by the Ministry of Health, the Herald is regularly publishing the proportion of people partially and fully vaccinated across all 66 New Zealand territorial authorities, highlighting the top 20 towns.
