Slow vaccination, border restrictions impact university enrolments in Australia and New Zealand

Australian universities have been impacted by the government’s restrictive border policies ad slower rates of vaccination. Australia will begin vaccination programme in March 2021 with the goal to vaccinate at least 4% of the Australian population every week. International students will be eligible for the vaccine at no cost.
It may take a full year before the population of 5 million gets access to vaccines New Zealand. The government says that the slower rollout is an altruistic recognition that the need for vaccines is far greater in other countries given New Zealand’s incredibly low infection rates (cases are limited to quarantine facilities). More infectious and likely deadly variants are emerging in quarantine facilities, even as vaccine deliveries are not scheduled to arrive until late March. NZ's eight public universities have announced that they expect to lose NZ$200 million this year from the inability to host international students.