Vaccine hesitant construction workers are changing their minds about getting the jab as changes are made to work sites opening.
Construction workers in Sydney are ready to pick up the tools with the latest announcement around COVID-19 safe workplaces.Fully vaccinated staff from the hotspot areas will be allowed back to workVaccine hesitant workers are now booking their appointments after Deputy Premier John Barilaro announced that vaccinated workers will be allowed back on site next week.
"Yeah I was worried going out to work every day, it was a risk that I had to take to provide for my family. Now I 100 per cent want the vaccine, and I want all my guys to be vaccinated." one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and, if less than three weeks since that vaccine was administered, a negative COVID-19 test or negative rapid antigen test in the previous 72 hours
"Construction workers from the affected LGAs will be added to the list of authorised workers allowing them to work on unoccupied construction sites in Greater Sydney if they meet the vaccination conditions."He lives in Yagoona, in the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA, and was suspicious of vaccines."All my friends around me are the same, everyone is different, but there was something I don't know about vaccines.
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