‘Vaxathon’ eclipses daily vaccine record

New Zealand health-care workers administered a record number of vaccine jabs Saturday as the nation held a festival aimed at getting more people inoculated against the coronavirus. Musicians, sports stars and celebrities pitched in for the “Vaxathon” event, which was broadcast on television and online. By late afternoon, more than 120,000 people had gotten shots, eclipsing the daily record of 93,000 set in August. Air New Zealand converted a Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane into a vaccination clinic for the day, issuing people boarding passes on “Flight NZVAX.”