Mass vaccination sites are set to open across the City of Melbourne as the Andrews government looks at upskilling health workers to ensure there are enough staff to administer a COVID-19 vaccine
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Priority groups, which are likely to be frontline health workers and older Australians, would access the vaccine first, with a security guard checking people's identification to ensure they qualified.Strict infection controls, such as temperature checks, would ensure the vaccines were only administered to people free of COVID symptoms.
“Victoria already has pharmacists trained to provide immunisations which will also boost our workforce capacity.” “This will be a relatively new vaccine and I have no doubt that all the safety data will be A-OK but there will be more reticence. I can sense it already. There will be more discussions about the safety data, the risks and benefits.”
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