Yesterday marked the first day of the paediatric vaccine rollout in New Zealand, for children aged between 5 and 11 years old.

Roughly 6,600 children under 11 years old received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine across Auckland on Monday.

Social media has surged with rumours that 5 children fainted at an Auckland vaccination centre yesterday. The claims mention that instead of calling ambulances, staff at the North Shore Stadium centre got parents to take their kids to the hospital so as to not scare other parents.

The Ministry of Health has denied these rumours.

"We are aware of some claims of adverse events occurring at the Eventfinda Stadium drive-through vaccination centre on the North Shore yesterday [Monday]. These are incorrect," NRHCC Clinical Director, Dr Anthony Jordan told Newshub on Tuesday.  "We can confirm there are no reports of any such events occurring."

Auckland councillor Richard Hills said the claim was "nonsense". 

"All my contacts who were there say this is nonsense and there was an ambulance called for an unrelated incident in the stadium not anything to do with vaccines," Hills told Newshub.