Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said the first New Zealanders have been fully vaccinated while the number of people who have refused the vaccine was around the "10 or 20" people.
There are no new community cases of Covid-19 but three in managed isolation and more than 6000 tests processed yesterday.
Hipkins asked people to keep any eye out for Covid-19 symptoms and to get tested if anyone has any.
More than 27,000 people have received the vaccine so far.
"We're making good progress on group 1," Hipkins said.
More than 1100 vaccinators have finished their training so far and more than 5000 people have registered their interest to become qualified to be part of the vaccine programme.
She said she did not believe concern about the vaccine was as widespread as many believed – and said the term "vaccine hesitancy" was not very useful, saying different people needed different information to make up their minds.
She did not want to set a target for herd immunity – rather, New Zealand should be striving for the highest level possible.
"There is unlikely to be a magic number."
But she warned that Covid-19 would keep coming into New Zealand, adding that the vaccine was not "a magic bullet".
Turner said "many more thousands" of people are ready to be trained to give Covid vaccinations.
There were two new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation yesterday.