9 Jul 2021

Covid 19: Whanganui highschoolers to recieve vaccines next term

From First Up, 5:52 am on 9 July 2021

From early next term high school students in Whanganui over the age of 16 will receive their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. Bruce Jones is the Whanganui District Health Board's communicable disease and school-based immunisation co-ordinator. In the past he's worked vaccinating school students for HPV and Meningococcal B. But over the next little while, he'll be overseeing the Covid-19 vaccination rollout. He spoke with Ellie Jay