New South Wales will open its long-awaited mass coronavirus vaccination hub tomorrow, in a bid to double the amount of jabs distributed across the state every week to more than 60,000.
Located at Sydney Olympic Park, the hub alone will have the capacity to administer 30,000 doses per week and will attempt to catch NSW up to speed with other states in its vaccination rates.
It will operate six days a week between 8am to 8pm, and will be staffed by about 300 medical personnel, the majority of them registered nurses and midwives.
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Staff undertake training at the new centre located in Homebush(Supplied)
Leading health experts have continued to defend COVID-19 vaccines amid links to blood clots, ensuring Australians that any risk of serious side effects from the jab are extremely rare.
Chair for the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness, and former Secretary of the Australian Department of Health, Jane Halton, said that such events occur in about four in a million people.
Yesterday, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) confirmed that the death of a 48-year-old woman who developed blood clots days after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine is likely linked to the jab.
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Chair for the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness, and former Secretary of the Australian Department of Health Jane Halton(9News)
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Covid-19 vaccine rollout: How Africa is faring
By Keagan Le Grange
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Cape Town: As the world shifts its focus to the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in efforts to end the pandemic, it has become evident that the most developed countries across the world have reached advanced phases of their rollout plans while many others have not.
Africa remains in their early stages of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout due to various challenges, mainly due to the shortage of vaccine shots.
The Conversation reported that African countries trying to overcome the vaccine shortfall resorted to sourcing them through:
The Covax facility which is a global initiative aiming to provide equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines which is led by multiple global health organisations such as the World Health Organization, Gavi, the vaccine alliance and the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness.
Department of Health statistics show 170,000 fewer first doses were dished out on Friday and Saturday
This is despite Britain being in a race against time to administer first doses before rolling out second jabs
AstraZeneca and Pfizer have both said there is no issue with their doses deliveries to Britain s programme
Top statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter has urged ministers to publish more detailed vaccinations data