Thousands of GP clinics will start giving coronavirus vaccination jobs to the elderly in just two weeks as ramps roll up $ 6billion after slow start to REAL
- More than 4,500 general medicine clinics to deliver the Covid vaccine on March 22nd
- Old Australians and residents with a basic condition will receive the injection
- Further help will come as Australia falls behind the timetable for the rollout of the vaccine
- Only half of the 60,000 target was vaccinated within the first week
Thousands of general medical clinics will deliver the Covid-19 vaccine to elderly Australians and residents living with a basic condition as the next phase of the rollout begins.
More than 4,500 GP clinics will be armed and ready to deliver the vaccine when phase 1b begins on March 22nd.
The extra help comes as Australia’s vaccination program falls behind the record with just half of the target of 60,000 people vaccinated within the first week.
Thousands of general medicine clinics will deliver the Covid-19 vaccine to elderly Australians and residents living in basic condition as the next phase of the outbreak begins (pictured, old care resident John Healywho among the first to be vaccinated)
The vaccine was only delivered to care facilities age 158 despite promises from the federal government to deliver it to 260 facilities in the first week (pictured, Jane Malysiak, an age care resident, was the first Australian received the Pfizer vaccine on 21 February as Prime Minister Scott Morrison looks at)
The vaccine was only delivered to 158-year-old care facilities despite promises from the federal government to deliver it to 260 facilities in the first week.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called in the Australian Defense Force to help roll out the country’s vaccine on time.
Health minister Greg Hunt says the help from the doctors ‘clinics would also promise’ effective and equitable distribution of vaccines across the country. ‘
More than $ 6 billion has been invested in the distribution of the Australian coronavirus vaccine, with contracts for more than 150 million doses in total and a third to be made by the pharmaceutical giant CSL in Victoria.
The home doses are expected to be available in time for phase 1b.
The President of the Australian Medical Association, Omar Khorshid, said no party was better equipped to deliver the vaccines than GP clinics.
People would then receive their Covid-19 injection near their home.
‘GPs have a proven history of influenza vaccination in older Australians and those living with chronic disease, which make up the majority of stage 1B transmission,’ said Dr Khorshid.
It is gratifying to see the majority of GPs raise their hands to take part in this vital national program.
More than 4,500 GP clinics will be armed and ready to deliver the vaccine when phase 1b begins on March 22
More than $ 6 billion has been invested in the distribution of the Australian coronavirus vaccine, with contracts for more than 150 million doses in total and a third to be made by pharmaceutical giant CSL in Victoria
‘Universal use is accessible to people and has helped Australia get some of the highest vaccination rates in the world.’
In addition to the platform, general practices will be promoted by GP-led respiratory clinics and aboriginal community-controlled health services.
The AMA said more than 130 respiratory clinics and more than 300 Native American-controlled health service sites will support the phase 1b rollout.
Overseas and hotel quarantine workers, as well as residents and age and disability care workers, are given AstraZeneca and Pfizer doses from overseas as part of phase 1a.
Nearly 74,000 people in Australia have received their first dose of vaccine to date.
As the spread of the vaccine continues across Australia, more than 40,000 of the country’s residents are living abroad and trying to return.
AstraZeneca and Pfizer doses from overseas are given to health and hotel quarantine staff, as well as residents and age and disability care staff, as part of phase 1a