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Another year, another lockdown: Antidote pharmacies
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Another year, another lockdown: Antidote pharmacies
Friday 8 October 2021, 02:23 PM
Antidote co-owner Chin Loh is frustrated at how difficult it is for pharmacies to begin offering the COVID-19 vaccine
Eighteen months after New Zealand's first nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown, Pharmacy Today reporters Jonathan Chilton-Towle and Anna Lee revisited, in a socially distanced way, pharmacy staff they interviewed last year to see how a year and a half has changed the pandemic landscape
When news of an Alert Level 4 lockdown broke, Chin Loh, co-owner of Dunedin's Antidote chain, closed two of its eight pharmacies, Antidote Octagon and