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Booking confusion and technical problems have plagued the launch of the federal government s vaccine booking website.
The Department of Health s eligibility tool, launched on Wednesday morning, was set up to allow Australians eligible under phase 1b of the vaccine rollout to book an appointment at their closest GP.
Several users reported receiving error messages when attempting to make a booking in the hours after the website launched.
This has since been fixed, but there have been issues with booking appointments with GPs.
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SBS News contacted five GP clinics in Melbourne that appeared on the website, none of which could make an appointment.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/503353.html (Natural News) Australian Minister of Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt was hospitalized after getting the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine made by AstraZeneca. The health minister’s office said Hunt was admitted with a suspected infection, but was expected to make a full recovery. Hunt got the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 7, one of two approved vaccines in the country.
A spokesperson for Hunt’s office said March 9 that the minister was “being kept for observation,” receiving antibiotics and fluids while confined. They added that Hunt’s condition “is not considered to be related to the vaccine.” The spokesperson did not elaborate what symptoms Hunt experienced or when was he admitted to the hospital.
Queensland to cap PNG arrivals to turn off the tap of infections 17/03/2021|4min
Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly says Queensland will cut the number of arrivals from Papua New Guinea by a quarter in a bid to control the COVID-19 outbreak after hospitalisations of incoming travellers doubled in the past 10 days.
He said since March 15, 32 PNG residents have arrived in Queensland, 13 of which are being managed in hospital.
“That is the pressure that’s going on the Queensland health system,” Professor Kelly said.
“So, these are the reasons why this has been my advice to the prime minister to make these decisions, to support on the ground, to assist to turn off the tap … in terms of cases coming from PNG.”
Australia on Wednesday said it was asking AstraZeneca and the European Union for urgent access to one million doses of its contracted COVID-19 vaccine to send to its northern neighbour Papua New Guinea (PNG), which is struggling to contain an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that PNG, a former colony of Australia, was “a developing country in desperate need”. Some 8,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine produced in Australia would be sent to the Pacific island nation to inoculate healthcare workers.
PNG has recorded more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 since March 1 – nearly doubling its total since the start of the pandemic a year ago.