Health
First Queenslanders to receive the COVID-19 vaccine from Monday – Brisbane Times
The first Queenslanders will be vaccinated against COVID-19 from Monday when vaccines are delivered to the Gold Coast.
Residents of the states aged care homes would begin to be vaccinated from next week.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young hoped every resident of the state older than 18 would receive the vaccine by the end of October.
Nobody will be missed, she said.
Hospital workers, quarantine and border staff and those working and living in aged care and disability accommodation, about 27,000 people, would receive the vaccine over the next two months, as they were most at risk.
Those workers would…
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