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NSW frontline workers will receive Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from next week
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says 35,000 frontline workers in NSW will receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Monday.
She said the process would take three weeks and vaccines would be administered at Westmead, Liverpool and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
The frontline workers include those working in the hotel quarantine program, anyone working at a testing clinic, emergency department workers and paramedics.
“This is a very important development in our fight against COVID-19,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“While the scale is not large to begin with … we anticipate the scale of the receipt of the vaccine will increase over the next few weeks.”
Chief health officer Kerry Chant said the priority was to protect those who are at most risk of…
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