CANBERRA, Apr 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Australian authorities promised, the vaccine rollout is accelerating, amid criticism of the programme.
Michael Kidd, the acting chief medical officer, said, the number of general practitioner (GP) clinics, administering vaccines would double to 3,000 by Sunday, and would rise further to 4,000 by the end of Apr.
It comes after a record number of vaccines administered in Australia on four consecutive days earlier in Apr.
“In the past two weeks, working with other vaccination delivery sites and teams, our nation’s GPs helped to triple the number of doses of vaccine delivered in two weeks from 250,000 a week to over 840,000 in the last week,” Kidd told reporters in Canberra, yesterday afternoon. “The daily and weekly numbers will continue to rise.”
Pharmacists will become involved in the rollout in phase 2A, which will start in the middle of 2021.
The health spokesperson for the opposition Labour Party, Mark Butler, today urged the government to follow the lead of other countries and use warehouses and stadiums as mass vaccination hubs.– NNN-AGENCIES
