BREAKING: Victoria has made a huge change to how Covid vaccines will be administered to ease extreme demand on the health system.
— the state’s deadliest day of the pandemic. Together the states registered 74,886 new cases.
“We’re calling on first year health students, retired nurses and more to join an expanded workforce of Covid-19 vaccinators,” he told reporters on Tuesday.“People with appropriate knowledge and experience and that you be could – applications open next week. Mr Merlino also confirmed that while Victorian students will “absolutely” return on time for Term 1, nothing was off the cards for how 2022 will unfold.
A total of 61,630 PCR tests were taken on Tuesday and 24,547 vaccines were administered at state hubs.
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