Queensland premier, CHO yet to receive COVID vaccine
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Chief Health Officer Dr Jeanette Young have not yet received their COVID-19 vaccine despite being eligible for several weeks.
Both leaders have been pleading for people to get vaccinated as hesitancy rates soar off the back of cases of blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine.
When asked today whether she'd had the jab, the Premier admitted she hadn't, citing the need to space out the COVID and flu vaccines.
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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is yet to receive her COVID vaccine. Supplied
"I have to have my flu vaccine first and I think Dr Young and I are planning to have that in the next week or two," Ms Palaszczuk said.
Today it was revealed regional Queensland areas will be able to get their COVID-19 vaccines from select community pharmacies in the coming weeks.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt and Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'ath this morning said 56 pharmacies in rural and remote Queensland are already involved.
It comes after National Cabinet agreed last month individual states and territories could choose to implement pharmacy locations into their rollout schemes.
The decision to implement the new rollout comes after National Cabinet agreed that individual states and territories could choose to implement pharmacies into their rollout schemes. Nine
Mr Hunt said additional pharmacy locations would be brought online in the coming months as the national vaccine supply increased and the continued rollout was being done to ensure the "broadest possible coverage" for Queenslanders.
9News understands staff at the pharmacies administering the vaccines will undertake specific training with the Australian College of Nurses.
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