Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has insisted the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is on track, with all remaining healthcare workers to receive their first dose of vaccine "over the next 48 hours". Key points: The Chief Health Officer has mandated that only healthcare workers who are vaccinated can treat COVID-positive cases Queensland has been stockpiling vaccine shots so that everyone who has …
Australia has approved its first COVID-19 vaccine for use — and it couldn't come soon enough. Priority groups — such as aged care and disability care residents and workers, frontline healthcare workers, and quarantine and border workers — will be the first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. There are five phases in total: Phase 1a: Quarantine and border workers, frontline …
Researchers raised fears that "systematic racism" in the provision of protective equipment was putting minority health workers at greater risk on Friday, as a study showed higher coronavirus infection rates among British and American medical staff. The report, published in The Lancet Public Health journal, found that frontline healthcare workers were over three times more likely to test positive than …
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