Nurses at the Gold Coast University Hospital receive instructions ahead of the Pfizer vaccine roll out in the Gold Coast, on February 22. Australia began its roll out of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine on Monday, the country’s most complicated logistical exercise to date. Photo: Albert Perez/AAP Image
25 February 2021 10:53am
The first week of the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in aged care homes has highlighted problems of delivery of the vaccine and equipment. In Brisbane a doctor gave to two elderly patients a dosage that was five times above the recommended levels prompting an investigation by the federal government.
The federal Department of Health said in a statement that Health Care Australia (HCA) had assured it that the that the doctor in question had completed “all of the required COVID-19 vaccine training”.