Almost 30,000 people in NSW are fully inoculated against COVID-19 and more than 94,500 are halfway there as the state recorded no new locally acquired cases.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Health Minister Brad Hazzard have blasted federal government claims the state has been slow to administer COVID-19 vaccines,revealing a shipment of 45,000 doses was “dumped at our front door” with no warning.
The announcement comes after two parallel clusters in Queensland were seeded in the community through an unvaccinated doctor and nurse who treated positive cases.
More than 800,000 doses of the locally produced AstraZeneca vaccine can start being distributed around Australia after the COVID-19 vaccine passed the final approval hurdle.
The first words from the first Aboriginal elder to get his COVID-19 vaccine were those of love and gratitude for his people and those who kept them safe during the pandemic.
Dangerous flooding and extreme weather has disrupted precious COVID-19 vaccine doses bound for roughly 50 GP clinics in NSW.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian urged the public to come forward for their booked vaccinations and symptomatic people to get tested for COVID-19,but only if it was safe for them to venture outside.
The Premier has defended Health Minister Yvette D’Ath after a confusing backflip on whether people with allergies should hold off on getting the COVID vaccine.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he’s not worried by news that three European countries have temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after reports of blood clots in a handful of people who received doses from the same batch of the vaccine.
The battleground has shifted,the stakes have changed,and Dr Chant and her allies will have to study the two new weapons in their arsenal - forged by Pfizer and AstraZeneca - in the long months ahead.
Doctors,nurses and pharmacists will face harsh penalties for spreading anti-vaccination claims on social media,including being stripped of their ability to practise.