Ministry of Health is preparing the roll out of swine flu vaccines for the predicted virus' second season this year.
In March the 'early protection” phase begins with a single strain H1N1 vaccine offered free to those considered most at risk of getting influenza and or developing complications.

The early protection vaccine will be rolled out through District Health Boards from next week. It is intended for front line health workers as well as people under 65 with certain medical conditions.
The second phase is the seasonal flu shot which this year contains the H1N1 strains along with two other prevalent influenza strains. The second vaccine will be available from doctors mid March.
The seasonal vaccine is available free for people over 65 and other people who meet the criteria of having a serious ongoing medical condition.
Ministry of Health spokesperson Karalyn Van Deursen says there are 300,000 single strain H1N1 swine flu vaccinations available.
Costs are not available because the information is commercially sensitive, says Karalyn.
Meanwhile the most intense transmission of the pandemic influenza continues in North Africa, South Asia and limited areas of Eastern Europe. Overall pandemic influenza in the temperate northern hemisphere peaked between late October and November 2009 and has declined since.
The New Zealand announcement comes as the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe begins hearings into the alleged manipulation of the World Health Organisation's global swine flu campaign by a cartel of pharmaceutical corporations.
The enquiry is into the ‘false flag' epidemic, and the WHO's subsequent promotion of vaccines that were fast tracked and inadequately tested.
Many countries in Europe are very angry about what the WHO did and how they decided to have a pandemic when there was just a mild flu,” says Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, chief of health in the Council of Europe.
He says the swine flu outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare. He is accusing the makers of flu drugs and vaccines of influencing the World Health Organisation's decision to declare a pandemic.
It resulted in pharmaceutical firms ensuring enormous gains, while countries ‘squandered' meagre health budgets, with millions being vaccinated against a relatively mild disease, says Wolfgang.