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Around a million people in NSW aged between 40 and 49 could get a Pfizer COVID-19 jab at the new purpose-built vaccination hub at Sydney Olympic Park within weeks.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the exciting development at the opening of the government-run Homebush hub on Monday. People aged 40 to 49 can register their interest in getting that Pfizer injection from 5pm today at nsw.gov.au, she said.
About a million people are in that age group, among the six million adults in NSW, she said.
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For the first two weeks, the vaccination hub will be open to people in categories 1a and 1b - emergency and aged care workers, frontline workers and their families.
Ben Shepherd from RFS receives his COVID-19 vaccination. - AAP
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Around a million people in NSW aged between 40 and 49 could get a Pfizer COVID-19 jab at the new purpose-built vaccination hub at Sydney Olympic Park within weeks.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the exciting development at the opening of the government-run Homebush hub on Monday. People aged 40 to 49 can register their interest in getting that Pfizer injection from 5pm today at nsw.gov.au, she said.
About a million people are in that age group, among the six million adults in NSW, she said.
For the first two weeks, the vaccination hub will be open to people in categories 1a and 1b - emergency and aged care workers, frontline workers and their families.
Australian state ramps up COVID-19 vaccination efforts with restrictions extended Xinhua | Updated: 2021-05-10 16:21
SYDNEY - Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) will ramp up COVID-19 vaccination as a mass vaccination center opened on Monday.
Residents aged 40 to 49 can register interest for Pfizer vaccine from Monday afternoon, while people aged 50 and over can make an appointment for the AstraZeneca vaccine from Wednesday.
During its first weeks of operation, the center will focus on delivering Pfizer vaccinations to priority groups including healthcare workers, emergency services workers as well as quarantine and border workers and their households.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the mass vaccination center will be able to administer up to 30,000 vaccines per week once it is up and running, that means around 5,000 vaccinations per day.
The New South Wales government say the “missing link” between two local cases of Covid-19 remains unclear and they were “keen to prevent a super-spreading event”.
Curbs in Oz over mystery case of Indian variant
Curbs in Oz over mystery case of Indian variant
Agencies / Updated: May 7, 2021, 06:00 IST
restrictions cover 5.3mn people
SYDNEY Australian officials are scrambling to find missing tranmission links in a Covid-19 case connected to an Indian variant of the
virus. Sent into a tizzy, they have reinstated social distancing measures across greater Sydney on Thursday.
Testing determined that the man was infected with a variant first detected in India and genomic sequencing had linked the case to a returned traveller from the US,
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said on Thursday. However, there was no clear transmission path between the two people.