Article 5KXAN Morning mail: aged care vaccination blitz urged, PM’s approval drops, Ash Barty at Wimbledon

Morning mail: aged care vaccination blitz urged, PM’s approval drops, Ash Barty at Wimbledon

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Tamara Howie
from World news | The Guardian on (#5KXAN)

Tuesday: nursing union calls for funding to immunise aged care workers as Sydney outbreak grows. Plus: Scott Morrison's popularity takes a hit

Good morning. Leaders will gather today for the first war game" meeting of Operation Covid Shield, the federal government's revamped vaccine rollout strategy. And Australian tennis champion Ash Barty is dominating Wimbledon.

The federal government should fund a state government-operated vaccination blitz of aged care workers, according to the main nursing union, who say it is enormously frustrated" and angry" at the commonwealth's repeated failures, lack of urgency and blame-shifting. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) federal secretary Annie Butler wants the federal government to fund the program that would vaccinate staff in their workplaces as initially intended. It makes sense to us to fund the states and let them manage an on-site vaccination program for aged care, and then we can get it done," she says.

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