Calls for vaccine blitz for Australia’s aged care workers after repeated blunders

Nursing union ‘enormously frustrated’ over sluggish rollout, saying lack of communication has created more confusion

The main nursing union has called for the federal government to fund a state government-operated vaccination blitz of aged care workers, saying it is “enormously frustrated” and “angry” at commonwealth’s repeated failures, lack of urgency and blame-shifting.

The current outbreak in Sydney has highlighted the sluggish vaccine rollout to aged care workers, which the government once said would be done by Easter.

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