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Frontline disability support workers have aired their exasperation at the slow coronavirus vaccine rollout in a letter to federal government ministers, detailing their “whole life being taken over” by the pandemic.
The chief executive of a NSW disability support provider has also lamented the lack of information provided to the sector, telling SBS News phase 1A “hasn’t really started in disability” despite being more than two months into the rollout.
Figures released during a Senate inquiry on Tuesday revealed only 93 of Australia’s more than 6,000 disability residential facilities had received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, despite staff and residents being included in the first phase of the rollout.