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‘We want to deliver’: Covid vaccine delays hit vulnerable Melbourne tower residents – The Guardian
Community health groups have nurses, GPs and locals ‘ready to go’, but a lack of deliveries has forced them to cancel vaccination clinics
For the past four months, in the towering Richmond housing estate of Melbourne, community health workers have been hard at work, preparing locals for the arrival of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Its a difficult but vital task. Many of the roughly 2,000 residents are vulnerable or elderly, use shared services and are densely packed into the estates five towers, creating a high-risk Covid-19 environment.
Trust in government, though, is low. Many of the residents are newly arrived refugees. Their experiences…
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