{"id":1158,"date":"2021-09-11T05:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T05:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2021-09-11T05:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T05:13:25","slug":"victorian-government-states-that-vaccines-are-directed-to-areas-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Victorian government states that vaccines are directed to areas of concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Victorian government said it was sending 52 per cent of the vaccines it was allocated to Melbourne&#8217;s north and west, where cases have ballooned in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Weimar said the federal government had responded to requests to help get supply into chemists in those areas as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve asked the Commonwealth to prioritise activating pharmacies in the north and west particularly, to speed up the access to Moderna and to get more GPs activated in that area. And they&#8217;re responding in kind,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>This week, doctors, pharmacists and other community leaders penned an open letter asking the federal and state governments to bring more Pfizer doses into the north to prevent an unsustainable surge in hospitalisations.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the local government areas with significant outbreaks have low vaccination rates compared with other parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; ABC<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Victorian government said it was sending 52 per cent of the vaccines it was allocated to Melbourne&#8217;s north and west, where cases have ballooned in recent days. Mr Weimar said the federal government had responded to requests to help get supply into chemists in those areas as well. &#8220;We&#8217;ve asked the Commonwealth to prioritise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,222,177],"tags":[224,198],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-australia","tag-covid-19"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}