New Zealand is due to receive a million doses of the Pfizer vaccine by the end of the month.
About 150,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine landed on Sunday night and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says there's more on the way.
"This is our largest shipment of the vaccine to date. The first of four shipments this month that will total one million doses all up and signals the ramp-up of our vaccination programme," Ardern says.
Previous stocks of the Pfizer vaccine were due to run out on Wednesday, and Bernadette Papa was happy to get hers today.
"I was just worried about time really, that I might miss the waka for getting my vaccine done," Papa says.
But there are tens of thousands of group 3 "at-risk" Kiwis still waiting.
Ian R Bray from Nelson is frustrated he's been waiting for months.
"I can't say I'm very pleased with it," Bray says.
"I thought, given my age at 75 and health, I'd have been pretty much up the front."
One 66-year-old, who didn't want to be named, told Newshub it's a similar situation in her region.
"It definitely seems to be bad in Waikanae, I would love to get a vaccine, I don't know any of my friends who've actually had one."
The Prime Minister is promising they're on the way.
"The first deliveries of the new doses will start tonight (Monday) with a consignment dispatched to the South Island on a 7pm flight," Ardern says.
"They'll hear, from seeing those doses are arriving, that that puts us in the position to really ramp up with a million doses being received over the course of July."
The message to Kiwis is to come and get their jab when they can.
