that New Zealand had secured two additional COVID-19 vaccines. This means that the country now expects to have so many doses of the vaccine that it will be able to offer it to neighboring nations for free.
The Government signed deals with the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax to bring in an additional 18.3 million doses. Both of these vaccines require two doses, meaning that over nine million people will be able to be vaccinated. Prior to these agreements, New Zealand had already secured 750,000 courses from Pfizer/BioNTech and 4 million courses from Janssen.
Given that New Zealand's population stands at just five million people, the country expects to have almost triple the number of vaccines required.She said: "We now have agreements in place with four providers, covering three different types of vaccine technology and we have secured more than enough doses to cover our entire population plus the Pacific."
Government officials announced that free doses will be provided to Tokelau, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu, according to
👍New Zealand is a credit to the world.
This is an example of true leadership. Shame we cannot borrow some. We need to assess a reduction in the pay of every member of the Republican Party in the amount of $600.00 mo.
Goddammit, ckukahiko , you sure chose right!
BUSTaTRUMP Really, really badly worded. Aotearoa is NOT giving unwanted LEFTOVERS to our Pasifika brothers and sisters but has brought enough to share with our neighbours. Disappointing headline.
Meanwhile in New Zealand...
And here the idiot Trump bought Pfizer 100M doses of vaccine for 328M US population which is required 2 doses per person and he didn’t take the option of 100M extra doses.
Trump should have used her as his mentor.
Whats the process of becoming a new zealand resident Im interested..
She's a true leader. Wonder what it feels like to have one.
Smart is hot
namamasko po! 😻
Leadership realDonaldTrump Take some lessons !
Bless that woman!!
Can we appoint her as Chancellor of Earth?
Please donate it to the small pacific nations.
GoldsmithB Can we just hire her?
leadership
Much better path than promoting vaccine tourism!
alrighty time to change my tinder location to New Zealand and find myself a stunning girlfriend with a killer accent.
Good work hope Canada that bought thousands of extra vaccines willing to do the same!
New Zealand makes the US look like the Beverly Hillbillies.
Kingwoman Wish the US had ordered too much.
Every body just move to New Zealand, get jabbed and die in the arse end of the world.
TaritaC I’m so happy that the people of New Zealand have such a competent and caring leader.
An island nation speaks about their “neighboring country”
realDonaldTrump This is leadership. Damn, why aren't you gone already?
Need a visa to work in NZ who can help
That’s what you call, LEADERSHIP
Is this a bad time to transfer to new Zealand?
jacindaardern is a brought and paid for shill. When the truth comes out, she should not expect to be shown mercy simply because she's a woman.
This woman must be one of the best leaders in history
Exceptional Leadership! The citizens of New Zealand should be proud of electing a leader with great foresight. jacindaardern has a lot to offer the world, so I suggest she takes an international position post PM. For she will do great in any strategic leadership role.
Will_Overman Dear Santa, Can we please have Jacinda instead of our pathetic Prime Minister. Thank you, the UK.
Wow, yet one more reason that I want to live in this country
Why do we need a vaccine that we no very little about in reality when we have medicine several years old that work ? Hmmmm
Give free doses to African nations. Australia doesn't deserve them.
What neighboring countries? And doesn’t that imply they wasted the country’s money buying vaccines they don’t need?
Domino theory kiwi-style, when does the US go in and do a regime change?
Neighboring countries? They are an island in the middle of nowhere.
Ay iba! May pa sobra pa.
Hang on a minute, where is the nearest country to New Zealand. Its in the middle of nowhere!
BGulsby NZ's Jacinda Ardern is a forward-looking leader. Trump could learn from her. Correction: Trump is INCAPABLE of learning anything, other than nefarious pursuits which may benefit him personally. The Ghost of Karma Future will be the Christmas gift for the outgoing 'Individual 1'.
Jacinda please come to brazil
How brilliant NZ PM has been in responding to the pandemic!! leadership
...why is NZ able to be in this position? Is the CCP also in the “market”. The vaccine distribution should be controlled so that those most at risk of death get the vaccine first globally. Also, countries should not be able to purchase doses greater than their adult populations.
philippinestock She never ceases to amaze the world with her leadership. Lucky New Zealand!
philippinestock why buy more than you can use? i know you will share but other countries wanted to secure the vaccine as well without waiting for your excess 🤔 you are a little bit greedy no?
MarisePayne What is Canberra doing?
Can America trade leaders? I wanna speak to a manager 😂
Canada and Countries like NewZealand will give vaccine for free via gavi WHO COVID19 cdnpoli HumanRights heretohelp
Why did you over buy? Just to say you could give the vaccines away instead of just letting countries but then directly?
Most competent politician of 2020. Jacinda Ardern
When women rule the world, things will be so much better. I hope I live long enough to see it.
Can she come to the US?
if there's any neighbours around 50 miles radius
Have to stan this queen x
They don’t have neighboring countries. 🤷🏼♂️
That woman is gold standard
Is she available to sign in the January transfer window? That’s the kind of country I want to say I’m from!
A proper country
The only leader in politics whom isn’t a classist. Then they say women can’t lead. Has a man ever willed to do this? Talk to me once your male politicians do this.
No mention of the economic damage on the Kiwi economy & surge in poverty rates though - no, covid was “beaten” yet the consequences of lockdowns will be felt for years to come
Maybe JustinTrudeau can take a lesson from her. We may have 1% of our population taken care of by the end of January.
Lol NZ is sparsely populated and an isolated island
She’s a legend let me move to NZL
New Zealand taxpayers are very generous people. We thank them for their generosity. Can one of them gift me a Camaro for Christmas 😜😜
MattHancock BorisJohnson RishiSunak that's how to run a country in a pandemic. It really was that simple. You live on Greed and corruption.
Easy to do when you've got a population smaller than Yorkshire and your nearest neighbours are tiny islands of no more than a few thousand people.
Haha just like Trudeau the dope
That's how you lead a country
Psychopaths do all kinds of wierd stuff
You can be anti-vaccine or pro-vaccine and still be concerned about the warp speed development of the first ever RNA vaccine approved for human use I also question ultra processed, genetically modified food and artificial ingredients. Does that make me anti-food?
Damn you autocorrect! I meant Jacinda of course. 😩
Free doses? Why? Whose paying?
So she over ordered. Oops. If this was the UK press they would claim Bojo had wasted public money ordering more than needed
ElizStanley_ Please please come over here and be our Prime minister
Come on New Zealand. Give it a rest! You're just rubbing our noses in it now.
So wish we had this lady in charge
Santa, please clone Jasinda Arden and replace BoJo with her - that's all I ask for Christmas 🎄 tier4 London NewZealand
Sounds like a procurement screw up being spun as charity.
I want someone to look at me the way that lady is looking at Jacinda.
Can you come and run our country please.We need some grown ups in the room in the UK
Dear jacindaardern, please be prime minister of the UK. Please.
smhmarcus meanwhile, the uk have BLOOOOO passports
Amazing Prime Minister! Right on the ball! New Zealand are so lucky to have you!🌹
Her way of leadership is making me wanna consider to move to New Zealand :\\ Cant take much more of this crap from the UK's way of handling things in the pandemic
Why can't we have just one leader like auntie Jacinda? Why have all our party leaders dedicated themselves to killing us off?
It doesn't have any neighbouring countries...
Let’s be honest, she needed 8 million doses to vaccinate the entire population. Just the Pfizer portion of the British purchased vaccines could vaccinate New Zealand 5 TIMES OVER.
All for a virus not yet isolated an experimental unnecessary vaccine Human kindness is seemingly infinite
Not many people live in New Zealand would you ? 😉
Wish my country had a Jacinda Ardern. My country's president is one of the most corrupt opportunist around thanks to 16 million IDIOTS who elected him. I didn't vote for him.
LawrieJohnston This is what a proper leader looks like
How generous 🙄
Can I vote for Jacinda in the next UK election?
people emphasising “free of charge” is if every other first world country isn’t doing the same 🙄
Feel free, to come to UK and sort stuff out especially in London as we seem to have lost the plot jacindaardern
She's been brilliant you just gotta love her
She was also filled with glee when she talked about imprisoning citizens against their will
We really need some young forward thinking women to come through the political ranks in all parties. But it’s an old boys club in the current govt. we need young fresh blood now. Jacinda is amazing.
... and who was prioritised over most UK Citizens here ? The Scumbag whose media decries 'health tourists', and has helped to give us one of the most inept and corrupt governments EVER - Murdoch.