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Melbourne’s Bayside Shopping Centre has become Victoria’s first shopping centre-based vaccination hub, and expects to give easy access to COVID-19 vaccines for 500,000 local residents.
“We are pleased to have opened the Frankston Community Vaccination Hub at Bayside Centre, where we are able to provide this important service in a central, easy to access location to our community,” said Peninsula Health executive director of operations Helen Cooper.
The temporary clinic is taking up 2,900 square metres of unused space, and is part of the work Vicinity Centres is doing to support state governments.
On Monday, NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant hinted that Tuesday’s conference would announce a move toward mass vaccination hubs something made possible with ATAGI’s decision to recommend Sydneysiders aged 18+ to utilise the state’s vast stockpiles of AstraZeneca after political pressure and a worsening situation.
New vaccine hub opens
A NEW COVID-19 vaccination site has opened at the Bayside Shopping Centre.
The vaccine clinic is located next to Rebel sport. It is open from 9.30am-5pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, and from 11.30am to 7pm on Thursdays and Fridays.
Pfizer jabs are available by appointment only for people over the age of 40. Walk-in appointments can be made for AstraZeneca vaccinations for people over 60.
Existing coronavirus vaccine bookings made for John Madder Hall and Theatre 10 at Frankston Hospital will be moved to the Bayside site. Anyone with bookings at the old site from 7:30am to 9:30pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, and 7:30am-11:30am Thursday and Friday can walk into the Bayside clinic anytime during the day of their original appointment for the jab. All other appointments will take place at their original time but at Bayside Shopping Centre instead.