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Dunedin pharmacy boss hits out at slow vaccine rollout
Friday 1 October 2021, 04:43 AM
Antidote co-owner Chin Loh is frustrated at how difficult it is for pharmacies to begin offering the COVID-19 vaccine
When news of an Alert Level 4 lockdown broke, Chin Loh, co-owner of Dunedin’s Antidote chain, closed two of his eight pharmacies, Antidote Octagon and Antidote Central, for the duration of the pandemic, to ensure he had the staff to keep the others open in the event of a COVID exposure.
From then on, Mr Loh’s teams were “flat out seven days a week”, although there was no frantic medicines stockpiling of the kind that occurred last yea