Australia has been urged to ramp up Indigenous COVID-19 vaccination coverage, with a leading human rights group warning of an impending disaster.
Australia has been urged to dramatically boost Indigenous COVID-19 vaccination coverage, with a leading human rights group warning of an impending disaster.
That lags behind population-wide figures of 50 per cent for a first dose and 28.2 per cent with two jabs. "Australia's federal, state, and territory governments should not repeat the failings in NSW and should urgently improve vaccine access and health care for Indigenous communities."NSW records 452 new local COVID-19 cases as spread through Aboriginal communities continues
"Aboriginal communities right across this country are sitting ducks and we're seeing that unfold in slow motion in the western division of New South Wales," she told reporters in Sydney.Ms Burney said in some large communities people were waiting at least 13 days for a jab because of availability.
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