A shot at recovery

Vaccine delivery needs to move beyond govt control

Covid-19 locked down the economy and it is axiomatic that recovery is dependent on a significant proportion of the population — between 70 and 80 per cent — being vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. But the glacial rate of progress in the government’s vaccine delivery programme so far suggests that this milestone is unlikely to be achieved anytime soon. Until February 2, only 4.5 per cent of front line staff had volunteered for the first dose of this two-dose vaccine. The record for health care workers is slightly better, with more than half of them (5.6 million) having taken the