Concerns for New Zealand Pasifika community over Auckland church Covid cluster

Concerns for New Zealand Pasifika community over Auckland church Covid cluster

Experts say Pasifika people are at greater risk because of low vaccination rates, socio-economic disadvantage and poorer housing

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Fears for New Zealand’s Pasifika community are growing, after the director general of health, Ashley Bloomfield, said this week that more than half of the country’s coronavirus cases were Pacific people who attended a church service in South Auckland.

The country is bracing for its biggest coronavirus outbreak yet as cases rise, the number of locations of interest balloons to more than 400 and the number of close contacts swells to more than 15,700 people.

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August 25, 2021 at 01:27AM