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Lotteries, free beer, tuition fees: CMO touts incentives to combat jab hesitancy25/05/2021|2min
Anything from lotteries to free beer giveaways could soon be on the table to encourage hesitant Australians to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly has spruiked major incentives as a means to lure Australians to receive the jab.
“We really do need to look for incentives – as many incentives as we can – for people to become vaccinated,” he said.
Overseas, multi-million-dollar cash lotteries with catchy campaign slogans and subsidised tuition fees have been used to promote a high vaccine uptake.
It comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison prepares to take his vaccine passport proposal to the National Cabinet for approval.
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Vaccine sites have officially opened to every Victorian aged 50 and over, as health authorities move to reassure those wary of the AstraZeneca vaccine to speed up the roll-out.
From 7.30am six mass vaccine sites across the state began inoculating those 50 and over. Another site is due to open in Cranbourne on Tuesday morning. Including smaller sites, there will be 22 sites in total open to the eligible public from today.
The Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton is one of seven mass vaccination hubs opening to over 50s this week.
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Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton took to Twitter on Sunday night urging Victorians to book in for a vaccine.