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Subscriber only Queensland s coronavirus jab drive is failing to keep pace with Victoria and New South Wales as new mass vaccination hubs in those states trigger a rapid ramp-up of the rollout. The Sunshine State is in danger of being left behind as analysis of vaccination data shows Victoria s new jab hubs, which opened last Monday, allowed the state to increase the number of daily jabs by 4000, with its week-on-week jab average jumping 35.6 per cent. It was in stark contrast to Queensland s modest 11.8 per cent rise in the same week. The newly-opened Sydney Olympic Park hub will have the potential to deliver 5000 COVID-19 jabs a day, more than double what all of Queensland s state-run clinics administer on an average day.
Health Minister Greg Hunt today confirmed there were no locally transmitted cases in Australia.
Mr Hunt said Australia s low numbers were extraordinary compared to other countries.
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Greg Hunt has announced phase 1B of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is about to begin.(Nine) To have zero cases after much focus on this over the weekend, in a world of 800,000 cases a day, draws the comparison between a world in pandemic and an Australia in control, he said. That s an extraordinary national achievement.
Operations Co-ordinator from the Vaccine Operations Centre Commodore Eric Young said authorities were working to ensure people knew when and how they could receive a coronavirus jab.
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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.