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First-year healthcare students and retired nurses will be recruited to Victoria’s COVID-19 vaccination workforce as part of a new government program.
The Acting Health Minister said some workers were unavailable because they had tested COVID-positive, and some because they were close contacts of a coronavirus case.“The premier was up yesterday talking about more than 4000 workers on leave. I can tell you today it’s more than 6600 health service workers who are unavailable to work right now, so this is a system under strain,” Mr Merlino said.
The workers would be known as “limited scope COVID-19 vaccinators”, and have to complete mandatory vaccination training, along with a coronavirus clinical skills and competencies assessment.“With comprehensive training and supervision, we’re helping 1000 Victorians in relevant fields get the training they need to join our vaccination efforts,” said Mr Merlino, who as the state’s Education Minister emphasised his desire for the school year to start, as scheduled, on January 31.
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