Covid vaccination rates for Indigenous Australians behind in every state except Victoria
by Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed from Science | The Guardian on (#5NDTZ)
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As the Australian government approves the deployment of ADF personnel and scrambles to send extra vaccines to Aboriginal communities of western New South Wales, its own figures reveal that vaccination rates for Indigenous Australians are lagging behind in every state and territory except Victoria.
According to a Guardian Australia analysis of Department of Health figures, Western Australian regions are lagging behind the rest of the country in the overall rollout, with two outback areas having the lowest vaccination rates in the country.
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