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She said Canada went to extraordinary lengths to prioritise its First Nations populations, with everyone in all 31 fly-in-only remote Indigenous communities offered their first vaccination by 8 March. A handful of people flew by helicopter into these communities, delivering the vaccine in -35C temperatures. “But it was really the community leaders on the ground who made it all happen by having community coordinators address local people’s vaccine hesitancy and arranged rosters of community members to organise and lead local vaccine clinics,” she said. “Like [in] Australia,...

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As Linfox and Wagner discuss their proposals with state authorities, a former WHO epidemiologist says facilities should be run entirely by government

On Monday, company chair John Wagner confirmed the facility would be for-profit and said the Wagner Corporation would have just as much expertise in running a quarantine facility as the Queensland Department of Health. He told the Guardian the idea was still in its early stages and had only been the subject of negotiations with the state government for two weeks. But the Australian Medical Association has raised some concerns about the proposal, which it wants addressed before any decision is made. AMA Queensland deputy president Dr Bav Manoharan said the local health system will struggle to ...