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Premier Steven Marshall has spruiked the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine in South Australia as frontline workers in the regional town of Murray Bridge will be the first recipients of the jab nationwide.
Speaking to the media this morning, Mr Marshall said “this is an historic day for Australia with the first administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine”.
“We know that this is very important program for our nation and we are super pleased in South Australia to be the first place in the nation,” he said.
“South Australia has led the way in terms of our response to the pandemic since day one.”
The state received 1,000 doses of the vaccine on Thursday.
Dr Caroline Phegan says she is “very excited” after becoming the first Australian to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine at the Murray Bridge hospital.
Dr Phegan is the most senior doctor in the region and has an auto immune disease which means it would be much more dangerous for her to contract COVID-19.
“I’m very excited, it didn’t hurt at all,” she said.
“What it means to me is I now have started my journey for protection from coronavirus and that I have been part of the pandemic solution."
Dr Phegan said she would be straight back to work to supervise 40 or so colleagues who would be receiving the vaccine after 1,000 doses arrived in South Australia on Thursday.
Italy has blocked the export of some 250,000 Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to Australia, but Health Minister Greg Hunt says the interruption won’t drastically impact the next phase of the national immunisation program.