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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11895805" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="new-zealand" source="Orion">New Zealand</keyword> is talking to fast food brands about offering people vaccinations with their meals.</li><li>The government is speaking with <keyword id="11946165" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kfc" source="Orion">KFC</keyword>, <keyword id="12158021" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pizza-hut" source="Orion">Pizza Hut</keyword>, and <keyword id="11921796" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="taco-bell" source="Orion">Taco Bell</keyword>, an Auckland councillor said.</li></ul><ul class="summary-list"><li>Auckland ended a harsh lockdown on Tuesday, and the country wants to avoid future lockdowns.</li></ul>The New Zealand government is in talks with fast food brands like KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut about offering customers COVID-19 vaccines with their meals.Auckland, the country's largest city, eased a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-new-zealand-delta-extended-covid-19-lockdown-jacinda-ardern-2021-8">harsh five-week lockdown</a> on Tuesday, allowing fast food restaurants to restart delivery services and socially-distanced sales. Last month the entire country went into a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jacinda-arden-new-zealand-full-lockdown-one-unconfirmed-delta-covid-2021-8">full national lockdown</a> over one COVID-19 case.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is keen to boost the country's vaccination rate, and the government is considering partnering with fast food brands to make that happen.On Wednesday, Auckland Councillor Josephine Bartley <a href="https://twitter.com/jobartleynz/status/1440522449171320835/photo/1">tweeted that</a> Restaurant Brands, the company behind KFC, Pizza Hut, Carl's Jr., and Taco Bell in New Zealand, was speaking to the government about a partnership."We want to make sure we're going to where people are," Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/first-up/audio/2018813473/deputy-pm-incentives-for-vaccines-could-be-challenging">told Radio New Zealand</a> on Thursday."We know that a lot of Aucklanders are going to be really excited about getting their takeaway fix and could we use that possibility?"Robertson said, however, that there could be issues getting people to wait for 20 minutes after their vaccination due to the time pressures of drive-thru outlets.Ardern <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealands-ardern-says-lockdowns-can-end-with-high-vaccine-uptake-2021-09-23/">said Thursday</a> that she hoped to drop strict lockdown measures for good and wanted a 90% vaccination rate to do so. As of Thursday, 40% of people were fully vaccinated and 75% have had one dose, <a href="https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data#total-vaccinations">according to government statistics.</a>Demand for fast food has been high in Auckland since lockdown restrictions were reintroduced last month, prompting some people to try and get their fill by any means necessary.On Sunday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-zealand-men-arrested-after-smuggling-kfc-chicken-across-border-2021-9">New Zealand police officers arrested two men</a> who they said attempted to enter Auckland with a car "full" of smuggled KFC chicken, french fries, and ten tubs of coleslaw. Police said they also found $70,000 in cash inside the car.Earlier in September, police charged a 20-year-old <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Earlier+in+Septemnber%2C+a+20-year-old+man+who+snuck+out+of+Auckland+to+buy+McDonald%27s+was+charged.&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB971GB971&amp;oq=Earlier+in+Septemnber%2C+a+20-year-old+man+who+snuck+out+of+Auckland+to+buy+McDonald%27s+was+charged.&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.120j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8">man who they said snuck out of Auckland to buy McDonald's</a>.The lines for some Auckland branches of McDonald's, KFC, and Taco Bell started hours before their reopening, <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/126453468/covid19-long-queues-for-fast-food-as-auckland-moves-to-alert-level-3">Stuff.co.nz reported</a>. One McDonald's drive-thru described seeing some 40 cars already waiting when it opened, and a KFC customer slept in his car, the outlet reported.

The New Zealand government is talking to KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell about offering people COVID-19 vaccines when they buy meals

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="22501" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="New-Zealand">New Zealand</keyword> has secured two additional COVID-19 vaccines from the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax. This brings the total up to four vaccine providers.</li><li>The number of vaccine doses available to New Zealanders now far exceeds the population of five million people.</li><li>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that New Zealand will offer surplus vaccines to neighboring nations.</li><li>New Zealand will also offer $65 million in aid to support Pacific countries in getting access to vaccines.</li></ul>On Thursday, Jacinda Ardern <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/17/ardern-unveils-new-zealand-covid-vaccine-deals-as-economy-rebounds">announced</a> that New Zealand had secured two additional COVID-19 vaccines. This means that the country now expects to have so many doses of the vaccine that it will be able to offer it to neighboring nations for free.The Government signed deals with the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax to bring in an additional 18.3 million doses. Both of these vaccines require two doses, meaning that over nine million people will be able to be vaccinated.Prior to these agreements, New Zealand had already secured 750,000 courses from Pfizer/BioNTech and 4 million courses from Janssen.Given that New Zealand's population stands at just five million people, the country expects to have almost triple the number of vaccines required.In a <a href="https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/two-new-vaccines-secured-enough-every-new-zealander">press release</a>, Ardern revealed that spare vaccines would go to neighboring countries.She said: "We now have agreements in place with four providers, covering three different types of vaccine technology and we have secured more than enough doses to cover our entire population plus the Pacific."Government officials announced that free doses will be provided to Tokelau, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Tuvalu, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/17/947403839/new-zealand-will-give-free-coronavirus-vaccines-to-residents-neighboring-nations">NPR</a>.Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has <a href="https://twitter.com/NanaiaMahuta/status/1339350464584826881">said </a>that New Zealand is committing $65 million of development assistance money to support Pacific countries to "access safe and effective COVID-19 at the earliest opportunity."An additional $10 million is going towards a global commitment to ensuring that lower-income countries get access to vaccines.New Zealand has been praised for its response to coronavirus.The country reports only 2,110 cases and 25 deaths.On Thursday, there were 10 new cases reported. On Wednesday, there were zero.

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