A national measles vaccination campaign in New Zealand launched July 2020 is unlikely to meet its goal due to competing Covid-19 response priorities, local media reported. Only an estimated 6,500–7,500 people have received an MMR shot since the yearlong campaign began—just 3% of the targeted population of 230,000 people between age 15-30 who were not fully immunized as children RNZ; Otago Daily Times
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