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Can 'safe injecting sites' help Australia's homeless? | Drugs aljazeera.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aljazeera.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Advertisement Where do I get the vaccine? Can it make me sick? Is it safe? A team of public housing tower residents across Melbourne have been answering questions such as these to help their neighbours get the right information on COVID-19 shots. Collingwood public housing resident Nikol Tap has been trained as a âhealth conciergeâ. Credit:Eddie Jim Nikol Tap, 26, has been stationed about three times a week in the foyer of the Collingwood public housing estate â where she has lived for 14 years â to talk to people about COVID-19 and offer them face masks, hand sanitiser and information written in about a dozen languages.
So much so that by the time the federal government’s shipment of vaccines was due to be delivered to the team, in the week of 22 March, the residents were vaccine-ready. Clinics were booked in, about 800 to 1,000 eligible clients were identified, and the team estimated it could administer at least 400 doses a week, serving both the tower residents and the general community as a registered provider through phase 1b of the rollout. There was one problem. The vaccines that were promised by the federal government failed to show up on time. The team had been told to expect roughly 100 doses per week from 22 March, a supply so low that it had already caused concern among staff.
Grim photos show school drug crisis gattonstar.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gattonstar.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Man's body found near a primary school in Richmond Melbourne near a safe injecting room dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.