Melbourne’s two weeks of lockdown will ease on Thursday night but hospitality owners say the 50-person indoor limit means many large venues will stay closed.
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Faith leaders urged to spread word amid calls for churches to be used as vaccination hubs
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Religious leaders are being urged to publicly support the COVID-19 vaccine to dispel a groundswell of coronavirus misinformation circulating among ethnic communities that threatens to undermine the vaccine rollout.
Doctors are also pushing for churches and mosques to be used as mass immunisation centres as public health experts warn that reaching culturally and linguistically diverse communities, who were hit hardest in Victoria’s deadly second wave of coronavirus, will be critical to the success of the national vaccine program.
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