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Health experts are demanding Victoriaâs hotel quarantine workers get personal protective equipment on a par with staff in high-risk COVID hospital wards, as a coronavirus cluster linked with the Holiday Inn hotel grew to eight on Wednesday.
South Australia closed the border to residents of Greater Melbourne at midnight on Wednesday in response to the growing outbreak, with that stateâs Chief Health Officer Nicole Spurrier saying she was âvery concernedâ.
And about 10pm on Wednesday, the Department of Health tweeted that they were âtaking a precautionary approachâ and âstrongly encouraging anyone who attended Sunbury Square Shopping Centre on Friday, February 5 between 3.40pm and 4.30pm to urgently seek testing and isolate until they receive a negative resultâ.
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.
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.