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Australia’s Covid vaccine rollout hit by ‘significant’ teething errors, health department admits

Exclusive: Email sent to GPs reveals that many practices haven’t yet received needles

General practitioners have been told the Covid-19 vaccine rollout experienced “significant” week one delivery errors, including a failure to send some shipments of needles to accompany the vials, according to correspondence seen by Guardian Australia.

The rollout’s second stage, phase 1b, began this week, relying on roughly 1,000 GP clinics and 100 commonwealth-run respiratory clinics to start vaccinating 6 million higher risk Australians.

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