October 26, 2021
Street level vax push gets results
South Auckland is creeping towards the 90 per cent fully vaccinated target, with events over the long weekend taking the campaign to street level.
It’s currently sitting on 88 per cent first doses, compared with 90 per cent in Waitematā and 94 per cent in the Auckland District Heath board area.
Once 90 per cent of people in all three DHB areas are fully vaccinated the city will move to the new traffic light system of managing Covid.
On Sunday just 695 residents in the Counties Manukau area had their first jab.
Across the three Auckland DHBs, there were 7,964 vaccinations, just 1730 of them were first doses.
Yesterday Māori health providers launched a street heroes campaign, with Maori clinicians joining the Shot Cuz bus and vaccination vans to visit streets in Manurewa and Papakura with low vaccination rates.
Dr Anthony Jordan, the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre’s clinical director, says the aim was to encourage unvaccinated whānau to feel comfortable to come out and talk so they could make informed decisions about receiving the vaccine.
He says almost 80 people got their first doses.
A similar number got vaxed at an event put on by the National Hauora Coalition and WERO Hauora Immunisation Alliance at Rongomai Park in Flat Bush featuring performances by King Kapisi and Che Fu.
Yesterday there were 109 new cases of Covid 19 in the community, including four in Waikato and two in Northland.