Aged care residents, nurses and doctors, disabled support residents, and hotel quarantine workers, were among the first Australians to receive a COVID-19 vaccine today in Castle Hill, New South Wales.
They were joined by personnel from the Australian Defence Force and Australian Border Force alongside Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, and the Prime Minister in getting vaccinated.
Following Facebook's decision to block content from Australian media organizations, which also affected non-news groups, the federal government says it won't be using paid advertising to communicate coronavirus information on the social media platform.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison joins Aged care resident Jane Malysiak (left) as she receives the first Codid-19 vaccine in Australia Source: AAP
Prime Minister Scott Morrison who is among the first group of vaccine receivers says that vaccine will be voluntary and a lot of effort is being into the public health advertising campaign to address any vaccine hesitancy concerns.
The number of hospital-based vaccination clinics will increase as more doses of governmentr approved vaccines arrive in Australia
Vaccination teams will go into aged care facilities – 240 of them across 190 locations nationally this week – to deliver the vaccines on-site.
People will initially get the AstraZeneca vaccine at GP respiratory clinics, general practices that meet specific requirements, Aboriginal Controlled Community Health Services, and state-run vaccination clinics.
Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines require two separate doses for a person to be fully immunized – Pfizer/BioNTech 21 days apart, and AstraZeneca 12 weeks apart.
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