A number of places around the country are nearing a 100 per cent vaccination rate for a first dose. Photo / George Heard
A number of places around the country are nearing a 100 per cent vaccination rate for a first dose. Photo / George Heard
A number of places around the country are nearing a 100 per cent vaccination rate for a first dose.
As of this morning, Queenstown-Lakes (97.3 per cent), Selwyn (96.7 per cent), Wellington (94.2 per cent) and Dunedin (92.6 per cent) had made great strides in the race to be the most Covid-protected region in New Zealand, Ministry of Health data shows.
The Herald is regularly publishing the proportion of people partially and fully vaccinated across all 66 New Zealand territorial authorities, highlighting the top 20 towns.
Queenstown-Lakes is leading the way with 83.1 per cent of people fully vaccinated and a further 14.2 per cent with one dose. Just 2.7 per cent of people have not had a jab.
It is closely followed by Dunedin with 81.8 per cent full vaccination and Wellington with 80.5 per cent.
Both places fall into the Southern DHB area which had 76.1 per cent of residents with two jabs as of Friday.
The Selwyn District jumped three spots since Wednesday, possibly due to the announcement of two Covid-19 cases in nearby Christchurch.
Marlborough (78.7 per cent), Central Otago and Auckland (both on 78.4 per cent) round out the top five territorial authorities.
