General
Regional hubs confident of delivering Pfizer COVID vaccine across vast areas
Health providers are developing plans to meet the challenging logistics of the first-phase COVID-19 vaccine rollout to the outermost corners of Victoria.
Key points:
- The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will be administered first to frontline health and aged care workers
- Teams from major regional hospitals are likely to take the vaccine to outer regional centres
- Health services say they are confident of covering vast geographical areas
The Victorian Government has announced six large regional hospitals will be “hubs” responsible for distributing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to priority recipients, including frontline health workers and aged care workers.
However, hospitals in outer regional centres such as Mildura, Swan Hill, Horsham and Warrnambool…
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