New Zealand’s first large-scale COVID-19 vaccination clinic has opened in south Auckland today for the rollout’s official start to vaccinate border workers’ household contacts. ‘This newly established vaccination centre has been set up in East Tamaki as we ramp up our immunisation programme for this next phase to vaccinate the estimated 50,000 household contacts of our border and managed isolation and quarantine workforce,’ Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said today. ‘Initially, about 150 people a day will get vaccinated at the clinic, but we plan to rapidly increase these numbers over the coming week. ‘Today, 10 vaccinators have been on site, including some who have been vaccinating border workers in the past few weeks.