COVID live updates: Fully vaccinated Canberrans can now travel throughout NSW and Victoria

Missed out on a COVID-19 vaccine this weekend in Queensland? It’s not too late

As the times tick over in direction of December 17, a key vaccination milestone for household and pals getting into the state in time for Christmas, stress is mounting to get Queenslanders absolutely vaccinated.

With that date simply six and a half weeks away and 63.5 per cent of the inhabitants over 16 years of age absolutely vaccinated, there’s a shortfall of 16.5 per cent to satisfy the factors of 80 per cent absolutely vaccinated set down within the authorities’s phased reopening.

A vigorous vaccine roll-out is underway and this weekend noticed surf golf equipment, excessive colleges and theme parks providing accessible, pop-up vaccination hubs after the Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, final week urged Queenslanders to get vaccinated over the weekend to „shield themselves“.

Professor of infectious ailments at Griffith College, Nigel McMillan, mentioned authorities had been liberal in naming Sunday as D-Day for vaccinations forward of the border reopening.

„They’re giving two weeks on the finish of your second dose for full impact and we all know that it is about 10 days, so there’s most likely 4 or 5 days leeway on that,“ Professor McMillan mentioned.

Read more.