COVID-19 Response Recognition Award
The COVID-19 Response Recognition Award is a service award established by the New Zealand government in 2022 to recognise individuals and organisations who contributed to New Zealand’s frontline workforce COVID-19 response. The awards will be distributed from late January 2023, and it is expected that there will be about 80,000 individual recipients. Awards to individuals will take the form of a lapel pin and certificate, designed and manufactured by Mayer and Toye of Wellington. People eligible to receive the award include those who worked for at least a month in total as part of the managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) system, at the border, in COVID-19 testing, vaccination or contact tracing, or as medical staff caring for COVID-19 patients. The organisational award, in the form of a digital certificate, will be awarded to organisations that contributed to New Zealand's COVID-19 response as part of the MIQ system, either as an active frontline organisation, a contracted supplier of services for MIQ, or an iwi partner or community group supporting people staying in MIQ facilities. References

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Civil awards and decorations of New Zealand
Response Recognition Award