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New Zealand will open a new travel bubble with the Cook Islands on 17 May, the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has announced.
The bubble will allow for two-way quarantine-free travel between the two countries, a move that Ardern called “a significant step in both countries’ Covid-19 recovery, and a direct result of both New Zealand’s and the Cook Islands’ successful response to the pandemic”.
Just an update on the issues we’re seeing with vaccination bookings in the ACT.
I mentioned a little earlier that the ACT’s new Digital Health Record system, fast-tracked specifically so it could be used for Covid-19 vaccinations, was not recognising people’s Medicare numbers. The problem is obstructing people over the age of 50 from signing up for the record and booking in for their Covid-19 vaccinations.
Read the original article at The Guardian