Senate debates

Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Questions without Notice

COVID-19: Vaccination

2:34 pm

Photo of Richard ColbeckRichard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services) Share this | Hansard source

The advice I have with respect to the utilisation of COVID-19 vaccines on children in the UK is that the advice they are working on currently sits very closely to the advice that we are operating from in respect of children with specific health deficiencies. With respect to the specifics of the senator's question, I don't have any particular research with me in relation to long COVID. I'm very happy to see what advice I can receive from my health department because I know that our officials are in very regular contact with similar organisations around the world so that they can understand not only the implications of the virus on various cohorts within the population but also what they are doing with respect to the vaccination rollout and how they are applying the vaccine to various parts of their community. So we can—

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