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

To add to the Prime Minister's answer, 225,000 aged-care workers have now had vaccinations. What we've seen is that the pledge to put in place mandatory orders has had a major impact. We know that access has been available, but what we've seen over the last seven weeks is 13,000; 11,000; 14,000; 13,000; 18,000; 21,000; and 16,000 workers now having taken up a vaccination. I welcome that fact that, last week, New South Wales added a public health order to this. All of those elements have helped to lift those rates. Unfortunately, it has been necessary to mandate. The access has been there, but the uptake is now there. We welcome it. It's saving lives and protecting lives. (Time expired)

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