Queensland has announced its plan for a series of specialised vaccination hubs to be set up within weeks across the state, providing Australians with some insight as to how the process might work across the country. The state s health chief, Dr Jeanette Young, announced six COVID-19 vaccination sites will be rolled out first in the main cities where incoming travellers are in quarantine: Cairns, Townsville, the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and Brisbane s north and south. We will start there with our first six hubs, then as we get those newer vaccines that can be distributed more easily ⦠we ll be able to spread that vaccine throughout the state, she said, while confirming discussions with the government over the sites had taken place.
Queensland has announced its plan for a series of specialised vaccination hubs to be set up within weeks across the state, providing Australians with some insight as to how the process might work across the country. The state s health chief, Dr Jeanette Young, announced six COVID-19 vaccination sites will be rolled out first in the main cities where incoming travellers are in quarantine: Cairns, Townsville, the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and Brisbane s north and south. We will start there with our first six hubs, then as we get those newer vaccines that can be distributed more easily ⦠we ll be able to spread that vaccine throughout the state, she said, while confirming discussions with the government over the sites had taken place.
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The Coate inquiry into hotel quarantine identified deep cultural problems in the Victorian government which were at odds with the principles of the Westminster system, prompting calls from experts for an external review of the state s troubled Health Department.
Former judge Jennifer Coate, in her final report into the hotel quarantine debacle, delivered a brutal assessment of the department, which she said had refused to accept accountability for the program s operation and had maintained a dispute with the Jobs Department over who was running it.
Daniel Andrews approaches the media after the release of the Coate report.
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