Debbie Swain-Rewi and a team of five vaccinators from her Queenstown company, Engage Safety, were contracted by the Southern District Health Board to provide a pop-up drive-through vaccination clinic in the Wanaka Recreation Centre car park on Friday and Saturday.
She said it was the first time they had come to Wanaka and people were "certainly happy" to be vaccinated.
Across town at the old Mitre 10 building and car park Wanaka Medical Centre operated its first pop-up drive-through clinic.
Nursing and quality leader Maureen McNeil said the centre decided to have the drive-in clinic as it had been limited in the numbers it could vaccinate due to lack of space in the observation area and that had become even more difficult in lockdown.
"We tried to think about how we could get bigger numbers through and we were lucky enough that Mitre 10 made this building available for us to use."
Ms McNeil said the centre was expecting to vaccinate more than a thousand on each day.
On Saturday Aspiring Medical Centre held another of its regular pop-up Covid-19 clinics for its patients at the Wanaka Community Hub.
Both Wanaka medical centres are obliged to accept all patients as the centres are between three and four hours’ travel time from the nearest main hospital.
Until this past weekend they had been providing the only Covid vaccination clinics in town and both decided to move to safe sites following the lockdown restrictions so they could keep vaccinating.
