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The vaccination centre at Melbourne town hall has been forced to close until at least Monday after protesters allegedly verbally abused and spat on health workers during this week’s protests.
The hub was specially designed to help people experiencing homelessness, speak English as a second language or may not have a medicare card.
Co-Health have been doing a great job supporting their staff as we have here at Town Hall. It is beyond disappointing and it is completely disgusting that rioters would target people who - front line workers, health care workers and doing their best to help us get out of this situation we are in...
I call them rioters because there is really nothing about this that is a protest. There is no cause. It is all about self-interest. It is all about causing as much disruption and destruction as possible. You’re so right. It is the workers themselves and how deserving they are but here at Town Hall, our vax hub was set up to help the most vulnerable...
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States and territories were told at national cabinet their allocations of Pfizer will fall from 10.9m in September to 8.4m in October.
The leaked figures, seen by Guardian Australia, substantiate concerns that there is a reduction of Pfizer supply in the critical month that New South Wales and Victoria intend to reach the 70% vaccination target and push towards further reopening at 80%.
Related: Leaked figures confirm fears of a drop in Australia’s supply of Pfizer vaccine
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