A plan to bring forward Covid-19 jabs for Australians aged 50 and over and proposals for state and territory mass vaccination sites are expected to be unveiled on Thursday.
The prime minister will meet with the premiers and chief ministers for national cabinet, which reached an in-principle agreement on changes to the vaccine rollout at Monday s meeting.
While GPs will continue to be the main delivery point for vaccinations for people aged 50 and older, states and territories are considering options to supplement the rollout through expanded state vaccination centres.
As the program topped 1.7 million jabs on Wednesday, there has been broad concern about the speed of the rollout and vaccine supply shortages.
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Disability home operators frustrated by the pace of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout are trying to book their residents into GPs for immunisations as the federal government admits only 6.5 per cent of this vulnerable group have been inoculated.
It came as the new military head of the governmentâs vaccine operations committee, Navy Commodore Eric Young, said he was focused on fixing issues with the rollout, after what one bureaucrat described as a âslow startâ in aged care that was now gathering speed.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt with the newly appointed head of the Vaccine Operations Centre, Commodore Eric Young.
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