The vaccination centre at Melbourne Showgrounds.Credit:Eddie Jim
The Victorian government also announced a seven-day,circuit-breaker lockdown that will be in place until 11:59pm on June 3.
But the push for more Victorians to get immunised against the virus triggered a high volume of booking calls that led to a widespread outage of the state’s coronavirus hotline.
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Callers reported they had been left on hold for hours,while others said they were unable to get through to book their vaccine appointment.
Some callers also reported hearing a message saying the service was experiencing a delay due to a technical issue during the meltdown.
The state’s Health Department addressed the outage around midday on Thursday.
“Callers are currently having difficulty accessing the Victorian Coronavirus Hotline,” the department tweeted.