25 Feb 2021

Important for South Auckland to be high on vaccination list

From Midday Report, 12:17 pm on 25 February 2021

More than one thousand Papatoetoe High School students have been re-tested for Covid-19 since Tuesday afternoon.

Ōtara testing centre on Wednesday morning.

Photo: RNZ / Simon Rogers

Testing is available at the school, and at community testing stations, again today.

Anxieties are still high in South Auckland following the latest positive cases, with calls growing for the community to be first in line for vaccines when it is rolled out to ordinary New Zealanders.

Māni Dunlop spoke to the Manukau Ward councillor, Efeso Collins.