Last week's snow caused a minor delay in the completion of the second round of school-based vaccinations for the human papillomavirus (HPV) in Otago.
Project leader Jo-Anne Skinner said public health nurses were to have finished their school visits at Kavanagh College on Tuesday, but that had to be postponed.
The second round of the three-dose vaccination programme had gone well, but "mop-up" clinics were needed for girls who were absent from school.
One pleasing aspect was that some girls who had not been in the programme at the time of the previous vaccination had since elected to join, Mrs Skinner said.
Public health nurses had been able to complete both their vaccination work and their swine flu duties, but if swine flu had become prevalent that might not have been the case.
The third dose is scheduled to be administered in October, and it was hoped the snow and flu seasons would be over by then, she said.
