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‘Critical’ lack of Covid vaccine supply in Melbourne forcing GPs to turn people away
Undersupply so severe amid outbreak clinic forced to turn away residents of two care facilities
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Melbourne GPs say they are being forced to turn away huge numbers of vaccine-seeking locals, including busloads of vulnerable residents from care facilities, because the commonwealth’s supply of doses has not increased to match the explosion in demand.
The latest outbreak has caused a huge increase in demand for the Covid-19 vaccine in Victoria, and the state is now recording daily vaccination numbers of above 20,000 in primary care, up from the roughly 2,300 doses administered on 24 May.
Read the original article at The Guardian