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Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) welcomes this morning’s announcement that up to 56 rural and remote community pharmacies in Queensland will shortly join the COVID-19 vaccine roll and start administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to eligible Australians.
In a joint announcement this morning, the Minister for Health the Hon. Greg Hunt and Queensland Minister for Health and Ambulance Services the Hon. Yvette D’Ath revealed community pharmacies in rural and remote Queensland who were successful in the recent EOI process would be activated to administer AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine within weeks.
PSA’s National President, A/Prof Chris Freeman said the announcement will be a turning point in Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.
COVID-19: Daily new cases, hospitalizations and deaths, again on the rise
Photo courtesy of PAHO.org.
This week, between Sunday, April 18th and Thursday, April 22nd, 230 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported throughout the country, with the bulk of those cases located on the island of New Providence.
50 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported for The Bahamas on Friday morning, April 23rd, with (41) of those located in New Providence, and the other eight spread amongst, Grand Bahama (5), Exuma (3) and the Berry Islands (1). Two COVID-19 deaths of a 37 year old woman of New Providence and a 91 year old man of Grand Bahama, were also reported, along with an additional three deaths described as being under investigation. Hospitalizations in-country currently sit at 49 people – 10 of those in Grand Bahama, and 39 in New Providence.