Project co-lead Professor Paul Young says the new version of the vaccine will target new and emerging strains of the virus,including Delta.
Unvaccinated staff,even those who have a medical exemption,may have to take leave when the vaccine order comes into effect next Sunday.
The Gold Coast’s vaccination rate is behind the overall state figures and well behind a number of other councils that border NSW.
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian has revealed the state’s reopening plan when 70 per cent of NSW’s eligible population is fully vaccinated.
Documents obtained under freedom-of-information laws show the Health Minister did not take up Pfizer’s invitation for a first meeting.
Sydney’s lockdown and vaccine roll-out has prevented almost 5000 deaths and almost half a million COVID-19 infections,new modelling shows.
To reach an 85 per cent vaccination rate,“you would have to vaccinate teenagers”,according to the head of new research led by Queensland’s James Cook University.
Health experts say higher adult and teen vaccination rates will protect under 12s and their more vulnerable relatives.
Queensland recorded two new virus cases on Saturday,one a four-year-old girl linked to the Logan truck driver,as authorities work to prevent another outbreak.
Experts say the Queensland Premier’s use of worst-case-scenario modelling on COVID deaths is justified,after a week of bitter political fighting.