MILDURA Base Public Hospital has recorded 100 per cent compliance for workers required to have had a third COVID-19 vaccination dose.
Under new Pandemic Orders that came into effect on January 12 this year, workers in the healthcare and other key sectors were required to get their third dose by Tuesday’s deadline.
All of the Mildura hospital’s 1100 staff on active duty have complied with the direction.
Workers required to be triple vaccinated but were unable to receive their third dose by a nominated deadline because they were quarantining as a household or household-like contact have an extra 14 days from the end of quarantine period to receive a third dose.
Workers who were unable to receive a third dose by the deadline because they were recovering from a recent COVID-19 infection, have four months from the end of the isolation period to receive a third dose, provided the recent infection is confirmed by a PCR test.
The third dose mandate applies to healthcare, aged care, disability, emergency services, correctional facilities, quarantine accommodation and food processing and distribution workers, excluding retail.
Workplaces are required to view and record proof of vaccination, however, this does not apply to workers who have a valid medical exemption.
Meanwhile, fewer than two-thirds of residents in the Mildura Local Government Area have received a third booster vaccine dose.
According to Australia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Roadmap, about 95 per cent of residents have received both a first and second dose, but only 63.1 per cent have had a booster as of last Sunday.
The situation is only slighter better in the Wentworth Local Government Area where 94 per cent have had two doses, yet just 63.4 per cent have had a booster dose.
