Originally Posted by
pontificator
About 100 frontline workers have now been vaccinated, and they will begin vaccinating other critical workers en masse; this means it is mainly medical staff who have been vaccinated first, as they are most at risk of exposure. Around the middle of the year is the the rollout to the general population, and I would expect there will be more known about side-effects and other problems by that point. If that will disrupt the ultimate distribution of the vaccine in NZ is unknown, but there are other vaccine types on order, so it is possible they will switch to another version if they must.
In terms of the outbreak group, there were some children at one of the colleges who caught it from the family. And there are still pending tests. The origin of this particular version of the UK strain has not yet been traced, and they are still looking for patient 0. A potential candidate from one of the quarantine hotels was a close genetic match, but not close enough to nail them down as the viral source.
Look-in activity is continuing my end, mainly from a distance. Given the granularity of the checking, I'd say they are keeping close tabs. As an aside, that is really not reassuring, it suggests they need as much info as possible because they need to do something.