The Canterbury District Health Board has reached 90 per cent full vaccination. Photo / George Heard
The Canterbury District Health Board has reached 90 per cent full vaccination.
The achievement, also for Waitemata DHB, was announced at 1pm today.
The district health boards are now the third and fourth to hit 90 per cent double-dose with the Pfizer vaccination.
They join the Auckland and Capital and Coast DHB's which have also reached 90 per cent.
The last case announced in Canterbury was a child isolating at home after travelling from Auckland to Christchurch on an Air New Zealand flight.
The child left managed isolation last week and travelled from Auckland to Christchurch on Air NZ flight NZ8475 on Thursday, November 25.
The circumstances around the death are being treated as unexplained.