Covid-19 Vaccination Information

The Ministry of Health has updated its information about people with disabilities receiving the Covid-19 vaccine.

Disabled people can access the vaccine in Group 2 (i.e. those living in long-term residential settings/communal care, people with complex care needs who have multiple carers supporting their daily life, or who live in the Counties Manukau DHB area).

Group 3 includes all other people with a disability and for the purposes of the COVID-19 vaccine, this includes anyone who has an impairment that:

• is expected to last for six months or longer, and
• limits their ability to carry out daily activities and/or participate in society on an equal basis to others. This can be due to the interaction of your impairment with societal and environmental barriers such as inaccessibility, rather than caused by the impairment itself.

This includes impairments that are:

• physical
• neurological
• mental/psychiatric
• intellectual
• sensory
• other types of impairment.

Find out when you can get a vaccine.

COVID-19 vaccine rollout information by DHB.

More information

• Simplified “Getting your vaccine – What to expect” resource. This is a simple before and after walk-through of the vaccination process
• Full original version of the “Getting your vaccine – What to expect” resource
• After your immunisation – clear information and summary of likely side effects and safety measures
• Protecting Aotearoa– a thorough summary of NZ’s overall vaccine plan and how it will work
• General information about vaccines and the roll out of the vaccination programme
• A3 Summary of the rollout plan – summarises each of the four groups that will progressively receive vaccines
• When you can get a vaccine
• Medsafe’s Covid-19 Vaccine Evaluation and Approval Process
• Preparing for the COVID-19 Vaccination.

Covid-19 Vaccination Videos

• Dr Ashley Bloomfield on vaccines: good, simple overview of the vaccines and their safety, despite being developed so fast
• Vaccines begin in Waikato: DHB staff and other frontline health workers in the Waikato talk about their vaccination experiences
• Addressing misinformation with Dr Rawiri Mckree-Jensen: Dr Rawiri provides advice on trusted information sources and recognising and avoiding misinformation
• Sequencing of rollout: short video summarising the four main groups in the rollout sequence.

The Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan