WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand will receive its first batch of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine next week, ahead of previous expectations of receipt by the end of the first quarter, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday.
Ardern said in a news conference in Auckland that the government expects to start offering the vaccine to border and managed isolation facility workers on Feb. 20.
(Reporting by Praveen Menon; Editing by Leslie Adler)
