Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I am very happy to receive any details in relation to that specific case. I can inform the House that, as of last evening, 71 aged-care facilities across Australia had received vaccination. I should add that Holy Spirit in Carseldine is continuing the program and are expecting a 96 per cent take-up rate amongst their residents. This is the facility that we referred to before. In Victoria, 17 facilities and 1,181 aged-care residents have been provided with vaccination. These are confirmed in advance with the facilities. If you could provide the details to me, I'd be happy to follow that up. We will make inquiries about that particular facility.

Very interestingly, we have seen the number of facilities continue to increase. The first day was a trial day and there were approximately six. Then we went to over 20. Now we have collectively gone to over 71. Today we're expecting well over 20 facilities, with 1,600 individuals being vaccinated. That's occurring around the country. That's what's actually occurring. The order of facilities will differ—sometimes on the basis of advice of the facility and sometimes on the basis of readjusting one facility due to another—but let us be absolutely clear that we are seeing this being rolled out at facilities around the country. As of last evening, the advice from the department was that there were 71 facilities across the country in the first three days. That's better than I had originally expected over the course of that time, knowing that we were starting and building up and up and up.

In addition to that, there are the other measures we mentioned with regard to additional workforce being put on in New South Wales and Queensland. Indeed, under the Commonwealth contracts, Victoria has had the highest number of facilities and the highest number of aged-care residents of any state and territory vaccinated so far.

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