Phase 1a: Includes border workers, quarantine staff, aged care residents and frontline health workers including paramedics.
The first AstraZeneca jab administered to a Victorian healthcare worker was given to an infection control nurse at the Heidelberg hospital on Monday morning. The jab will be made available to those aged 70 and over and other adults considered at higher risk of falling ill with coronavirus, when phase 1b of the vaccine rollout begins.“I think probably within a couple of weeks we’ll be at the 1b group,” Dr Trevillyan said. “And then we are anticipating we will be open for the rest of the year to help vaccinate the general public.”
Lisa Smith, who is in charge of Western Health’s COVID-19 vaccination hubs, said she anticipated the clinic, which opened last Thursday, would continue being used to vaccinate the broader community once the job of vaccinating healthcare workers was complete. GPs were set to be at the forefront of the coronavirus vaccine rollout to the general public, but Ms Smith said it had been her experience so far that people also had confidence in the hospital-run clinics.
Australian Medical Association vice-president Chris Moy said mass centres would be instrumental to rolling out the vaccine quickly across the wider population, but they would not be appropriate for all patients.
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