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Medicines NZ hopes country can roll out COVID-19 vaccines early
19 January 2021 - Medical professionals are hopeful New Zealand is in a position to roll out COVID-19 vaccines early. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jan 2021
How NZ is preparing for the biggest vaccine roll-out in history
17 January 2021 - “When will we get a vaccine for COVID-19?” It has been the question on everyone’s lips for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jan 2021
COVID-19: NZ vaccine timeline remains the same in light of new variant strains
13 January 2021 - New Zealand does not have any plans to fast-track its Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in light of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Nov 2020
COVID-19: Pfizer vaccine could roll out in New Zealand at the start of 2021 if success continues
10 November 2020 - New Zealand researchers are hopeful and optimistic as Pfizer and BioNTech report success in their COVID-19 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Oct 2020
COVID-19: New Zealand to buy 1.5 million doses of potential vaccine
12 October 2020 - The government has agreed to buy 1.5 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine from one of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2020
How patent law and medicine regulations could affect New Zealand's access to a COVID-19 vaccine
12 October 2020 - New Zealand has allocated an undisclosed sum, in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2020
Three-quarters of New Zealanders intend to get COVID-19 vaccine
20 August 2020 - Three-quarters of New Zealanders say they would get the Covid-19 vaccine once it becomes available, new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2020
PHARMAC asks COVID-19 vaccine developers to let Kiwi businesses make doses under contract in New Zealand
14 July 2020 - PHARMAC has sent a “shout out to the world” as a step towards securing its share ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jul 2020
Request for information - COVID-19 vaccine research, manufacture and supply
13 July 2020 - PHARMAC, on behalf of the New Zealand Government COVID-19 vaccine strategy task force, is seeking information regarding ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2020
COVID-19: Health Minister David Clark announces more medicines, vaccines in $160 million PHARMAC budget boost
10 May 2020 - Health Minister David Clark has rejected claims he and other Government ministers have been "gagged", as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Apr 2020
Influenza vaccinations for 2020
29 April 2020 - There will be 1.768 million doses of influenza vaccine available this flu season, a 30% (400,000 doses) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2020
Biopharmaceutical sector waging war on COVID-19 with over 60 vaccines and medicines
16 April 2020 - The World Health Organization has declared that COVID-19 is a pandemic and 144 countries across the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Apr 2020
COVID-19: NZ should develop vaccine programme, say scientists
15 April 2020 - New Zealand needs to act now to make sure it's not left behind when a successful ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Mar 2020
Covid-19: medicine, vaccine supply disruptions likely - PHARMAC
16 March 2020 - Drug buying agency PHARMAC is warning further disruptions to medicine supplies are inevitable, as measures are taken ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Dec 2019
Flawed forecasting? Why New Zealand ran out of MMR vaccine
16 December 2019 - PHARMAC's forecast for how many doses of MMR vaccine would be needed for 2019 was around ...