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Victoria has rejected an offer for additional contract tracing help because they don’t believe they need it, the country’s top health officer says.

Health by MADURA MCCORMACK Premium Content Subscriber only Queenslands coronavirus jab drive is failing to keep pace with Victoria and New South Wales as new mass vaccination hubs in those states trigger a rapid ramp-up of the rollout. The Sunshine State is in danger of being left behind as analysis of vaccination data shows Victorias new jab hubs, which opened last Monday, allowed the state to increase the number of daily jabs by 4000, with its week-on-week...

Health Minister Greg Hunt today confirmed there were no locally transmitted cases in Australia. Mr Hunt said Australias low numbers were "extraordinary" compared to other countries. READ MORE: Greg Hunt has announced phase 1B of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout is about to begin.(Nine) "To have zero cases after much focus on this over the weekend, in a world of 800,000 cases a day, draws the comparison between a world in pandemic and an Australia in control," he said. "Thats an extraordinary natio...

Advertisement Disability home operators frustrated by the pace of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout are trying to book their residents into GPs for immunisations as the federal government admits only 6.5 per cent of this vulnerable group have been inoculated. It came as the new military head of the government’s vaccine operations committee, Navy Commodore Eric Young, said he was focused on fixing issues with the rollout, after what one bureaucrat described as a “slow start” in aged ca...

Health authorities have confirmed over-50s are expected to be able to book in for coronavirus vaccinations sooner than planned, as they admitted some eligible under-50s are cancelling appointments. Health Minister Greg Hunt said some states have "significant capacity in some of their AstraZeneca clinics," despite not all the people in phases 1A and 1B having had jabs. READ MORE: Health Minister Greg Hunt said more details will be given this week about the planned vaccination of over-50s.(Pho...

Commonwealth distributes nearly 600,000 vaccines over past week20/04/2021|7min The federal government distributed nearly 600,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine last week and is expected to increase that number this week, according to the Vaccine Operations Coordinator Commodore Eric Young. Commodore Young was appointed the operations coordinator for the Health Department’s Vaccine Operation Centre and will continuously brief National Cabinet in that capacity. The operations coordinator said th...