Eden-Monaro healthcare workers face seven-hour trip for Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine – The RiotACT

Vulnerable Australians are on track to receive the Pfizer vaccine from 22 February. Photo: Daniel Schludi.
Member for Eden-Monaro Kristy McBain says she is “shocked and concerned” to hear that frontline workers in her electorate will have to endure a seven-hour round trip to reach the nearest COVID-19 vaccine centre in Canberra.
She has written a letter to Health Minister Greg Hunt urging him to include the hospitals in Bega, Moruya and Tumut in phase one of the national rollout strategy.
“It means…

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