NZ Herald
  • Home
  • Latest news
  • Herald NOW
  • Video
  • New Zealand
  • Sport
  • World
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Podcasts
  • Quizzes
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Viva
  • Weather

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • New Zealand
    • All New Zealand
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Open Justice
    • Scam Update
  • Herald NOW
  • On The Up
  • World
    • All World
    • Australia
    • Asia
    • UK
    • United States
    • Middle East
    • Europe
    • Pacific
  • Business
    • All Business
    • MarketsSharesCurrencyCommoditiesStock TakesCrypto
    • Markets with Madison
    • Media Insider
    • Business analysis
    • Personal financeKiwiSaverInterest ratesTaxInvestment
    • EconomyInflationGDPOfficial cash rateEmployment
    • Small business
    • Business reportsMood of the BoardroomProject AucklandSustainable business and financeCapital markets reportAgribusiness reportInfrastructure reportDynamic business
    • Deloitte Top 200 Awards
    • CompaniesAged CareAgribusinessAirlinesBanking and financeConstructionEnergyFreight and logisticsHealthcareManufacturingMedia and MarketingRetailTelecommunicationsTourism
  • Opinion
    • All Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Editorials
    • Business analysis
    • Premium opinion
    • Letters to the editor
  • Politics
  • Sport
    • All Sport
    • OlympicsParalympics
    • RugbySuper RugbyNPCAll BlacksBlack FernsRugby sevensSchool rugby
    • CricketBlack CapsWhite Ferns
    • Racing
    • NetballSilver Ferns
    • LeagueWarriorsNRL
    • FootballWellington PhoenixAuckland FCAll WhitesFootball FernsEnglish Premier League
    • GolfNZ Open
    • MotorsportFormula 1
    • Boxing
    • UFC
    • BasketballNBABreakersTall BlacksTall Ferns
    • Tennis
    • Cycling
    • Athletics
    • SailingAmerica's CupSailGP
    • Rowing
  • Lifestyle
    • All Lifestyle
    • Viva - Food, fashion & beauty
    • Society Insider
    • Royals
    • Sex & relationships
    • Food & drinkRecipesRecipe collectionsRestaurant reviewsRestaurant bookings
    • Health & wellbeing
    • Fashion & beauty
    • Pets & animals
    • The Selection - Shop the trendsShop fashionShop beautyShop entertainmentShop giftsShop home & living
    • Milford's Investing Place
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • TV
    • MoviesMovie reviews
    • MusicMusic reviews
    • BooksBook reviews
    • Culture
    • ReviewsBook reviewsMovie reviewsMusic reviewsRestaurant reviews
  • Travel
    • All Travel
    • News
    • New ZealandNorthlandAucklandWellingtonCanterburyOtago / QueenstownNelson-TasmanBest NZ beaches
    • International travelAustraliaPacific IslandsEuropeUKUSAAfricaAsia
    • Rail holidays
    • Cruise holidays
    • Ski holidays
    • Luxury travel
    • Adventure travel
  • Kāhu Māori news
  • Environment
    • All Environment
    • Our Green Future
  • Talanoa Pacific news
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Property Insider
    • Interest rates tracker
    • Residential property listings
    • Commercial property listings
  • Health
  • Technology
    • All Technology
    • AI
    • Social media
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
    • Opinion
    • Audio & podcasts
  • Weather forecasts
    • All Weather forecasts
    • Kaitaia
    • Whangārei
    • Dargaville
    • Auckland
    • Thames
    • Tauranga
    • Hamilton
    • Whakatāne
    • Rotorua
    • Tokoroa
    • Te Kuiti
    • Taumaranui
    • Taupō
    • Gisborne
    • New Plymouth
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Dannevirke
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Levin
    • Paraparaumu
    • Masterton
    • Wellington
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Blenheim
    • Westport
    • Reefton
    • Kaikōura
    • Greymouth
    • Hokitika
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
    • Wānaka
    • Oamaru
    • Queenstown
    • Dunedin
    • Gore
    • Invercargill
  • Meet the journalists
  • Promotions & competitions
  • OneRoof property listings
  • Driven car news

Puzzles & Quizzes

  • Puzzles
    • All Puzzles
    • Sudoku
    • Code Cracker
    • Crosswords
    • Cryptic crossword
    • Wordsearch
  • Quizzes
    • All Quizzes
    • Morning quiz
    • Afternoon quiz
    • Sports quiz

Regions

  • Northland
    • All Northland
    • Far North
    • Kaitaia
    • Kerikeri
    • Kaikohe
    • Bay of Islands
    • Whangarei
    • Dargaville
    • Kaipara
    • Mangawhai
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
    • All Waikato
    • Hamilton
    • Coromandel & Hauraki
    • Matamata & Piako
    • Cambridge
    • Te Awamutu
    • Tokoroa & South Waikato
    • Taupō & Tūrangi
  • Bay of Plenty
    • All Bay of Plenty
    • Katikati
    • Tauranga
    • Mount Maunganui
    • Pāpāmoa
    • Te Puke
    • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua
  • Hawke's Bay
    • All Hawke's Bay
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Havelock North
    • Central Hawke's Bay
    • Wairoa
  • Taranaki
    • All Taranaki
    • Stratford
    • New Plymouth
    • Hāwera
  • Manawatū - Whanganui
    • All Manawatū - Whanganui
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Manawatū
    • Tararua
    • Horowhenua
  • Wellington
    • All Wellington
    • Kapiti
    • Wairarapa
    • Upper Hutt
    • Lower Hutt
  • Nelson & Tasman
    • All Nelson & Tasman
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Tasman
  • Marlborough
  • West Coast
  • Canterbury
    • All Canterbury
    • Kaikōura
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
  • Otago
    • All Otago
    • Oamaru
    • Dunedin
    • Balclutha
    • Alexandra
    • Queenstown
    • Wanaka
  • Southland
    • All Southland
    • Invercargill
    • Gore
    • Stewart Island
  • Gisborne

Media

  • Video
    • All Video
    • NZ news video
    • Herald NOW
    • Business news video
    • Politics news video
    • Sport video
    • World news video
    • Lifestyle video
    • Entertainment video
    • Travel video
    • Markets with Madison
    • Kea Kids news
  • Podcasts
    • All Podcasts
    • The Front Page
    • On the Tiles
    • Ask me Anything
    • The Little Things
  • Cartoons
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / New Zealand

The 90% Project: One of Hawke's Bay's first double-dosed teens says it was the right thing to do

By Sahiban Hyde
Hawkes Bay Today·
17 Sep, 2021 02:41 AM5 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

    Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

Adam Gregory is proud to have done his bit by getting both Covid vaccine jabs. Photo / Warren Buckland

Adam Gregory is proud to have done his bit by getting both Covid vaccine jabs. Photo / Warren Buckland

SUP170921steelandtube.JPG Steel & Tube is encouraging its staff to get fully vaccinated by offering them $150. Photo / Supplied

A_WB240321HBDHB3 Nick Jones, Hawke's Bay DHB'S clinical director of population health, said it was vital to get as close to 100 per cent vaccination rate as possible. Photo / Warren Buckland

BYLINE: Sahiban Hyde

Taradale High School student Adam Gregory knew he wanted to lead the way when it came to his turn for the Covid vaccine.

Gregory, 15, became one of the region's first double-dosed youngsters on September 12, just three weeks after it first became available to his age group.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

The Year 11 student is jumping on board with Hawke's Bay Today and NZME's campaign to lift vaccine rates in New Zealand to at least 90 per cent full vaccination against Covid-19 in our eligible population by Christmas.

By Thursday, 71 per cent of Hawke's Bay had received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, and 37 per cent were fully vaccinated.

Seventy per cent of Napier and CHB residents have received at least one dose, 71 per cent of Hastings residents have received at least one dose, and 61 per cent of Wairoa residents have received at least one dose.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Adam said he had been following the pandemic "very closely" since last year.

"It's been terrible to read the statistics and see the reports on the news of how Covid has affected families overseas," he said.

"I felt like it was the right thing to do to protect my family and wider community."

Adam said his asthma allowed him to be vaccinated as soon as 12 to 15-year-olds became eligible and he decided to follow up with his second vaccine just over three weeks to the day.

"Both times I went through the drive-in vaccination clinic with my parents," he said.

"The experience was very straightforward and very friendly.

"I could hardly feel the injection both times. I felt very tired the day after my second vaccine but nothing I didn't expect.

"It was great when I got both doses because I had played my part."

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

He said others wanting to get the vaccine should do their own research, and "think of others".

New Zealand's leading steel solutions provider Steel & Tube, which has a Hawke's Bay branch with 26 employees, is also playing its part to get New Zealand to the 90 per cent level.

It's offering either $150 in cash, KiwiSaver contribution, or Steel & Tube shares to all employees who are fully vaccinated by mid-November 2021.

The company has a total of 850 employees and believes there are compelling reasons for all employees to get on board with vaccination.

Chief executive Mark Malpass said the company believed a fully vaccinated workforce would create a safer workplace for the team and customers.

"We've got an interest in having high vaccine rates so it's one way we can play our
part in helping accelerate the uptake."

Those employees who opt for $150 in Steel & Tube shares will receive the shares on market through Sharesies, Malpass said.

"Our ambition is to get the whole of Steel & Tube vaccinated and therefore we are doing all we can to encourage our team."

Steel & Tube is encouraging its staff to get fully vaccinated by offering them $150. Photo / Supplied
Steel & Tube is encouraging its staff to get fully vaccinated by offering them $150. Photo / Supplied

Hawke's Bay DHB's clinical director of public health, Nick Jones, said getting vaccination rates as high as, or close to, 100 per cent would help in controlling Delta outbreaks in the community.

"With Delta, the dynamics have changed," Jones said. "It's very difficult to control outbreaks just using contact tracing and lockdown alone. Lockdown for a long period is not sustainable."

He said if there were "pockets of unvaccinated" people in the community, the risk of the Delta variant getting into the community was very high.

"And groups with lower vaccination rates are also the people who would fare poorly in Covid outbreaks, so it's really important to not have pockets of unvaccinated people."

Nick Jones, Hawke's Bay DHB'S clinical director of population health said it was vital to get as close to 100 per cent vaccination rate as possible. Photo / Warren Buckland
Nick Jones, Hawke's Bay DHB'S clinical director of population health said it was vital to get as close to 100 per cent vaccination rate as possible. Photo / Warren Buckland

He said getting vaccinated was not just for the individual, but for those around them as well.

The importance of getting vaccination numbers accelerated across the nation has also been highlighted by University of Canterbury modeller Professor Michael Plank.

He is working with the Ministry of Health along with other researchers at Te Punaha Matatini on showing how quickly Covid-19 could spread once borders open and restrictions are lifted.

''The modelling shows that if vaccination rates are in the 70s or low 80s in the eligible population, a large-scale outbreak could still threaten our health service capacity and lead to tens of thousands of hospitalisations and thousands of deaths," he said.

''If we can get into the 90s, the threat will be much smaller and could be limited to a more manageable number of hospitalisations with some additional public health measures."

The scenarios come as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said this week the Government had no intention of using lockdowns long term against Covid-19.

New Zealand needs to get vaccinated now to beat Delta - and that's why Hawke's Bay Today and NZME launched The 90% Project on Friday.

Director general of health Ashley Bloomfield said New Zealand should be aiming to pass 90 per cent.

"We need to be at or above 90 per cent . . . and that is why we have geared up our system to make sure we can deliver to that level. This is mission-critical," Bloomfield said.

Save

    Share this article

    Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

Latest from New Zealand

Premium
Auckland

'Negligent': First mother-baby HIV cases diagnosed in NZ in 20 years

12 Jul 05:00 PM
Premium
Editorial

Editorial: Using immigration as a primary tool to drive economic growth is risky business

12 Jul 05:00 PM
Kahu

Life in the balance: What it's like to be young, on a transplant waitlist

12 Jul 05:00 PM

From early mornings to easy living

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from New Zealand

Premium
'Negligent': First mother-baby HIV cases diagnosed in NZ in 20 years

'Negligent': First mother-baby HIV cases diagnosed in NZ in 20 years

12 Jul 05:00 PM

Routine screening had effectively eliminated perinatal HIV cases – until now.

Premium
Editorial: Using immigration as a primary tool to drive economic growth is risky business

Editorial: Using immigration as a primary tool to drive economic growth is risky business

12 Jul 05:00 PM
Life in the balance: What it's like to be young, on a transplant waitlist

Life in the balance: What it's like to be young, on a transplant waitlist

12 Jul 05:00 PM
'Two bits of gold': How ballet and sumo transformed the All Blacks

'Two bits of gold': How ballet and sumo transformed the All Blacks

12 Jul 05:00 PM
Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky
sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • NZ Herald e-editions
  • Daily puzzles & quizzes
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Subscribe to the NZ Herald newspaper
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP