The premier has already said that we should be able to open up when every single Queenslander has access to the vaccine. Every single Queenslander. Now, I don’t know, as the health minister standing here today, what date that is going to be.
The commonwealth has announced that they’re getting millions more vaccines in 2022 and 2023. That’s great, but we want our economy to open up before then.
So when are we going to get enough vaccines in this country that we can have every single Queenslander being able to put their hand up and say, ‘I want to get vaccinated?’ Because I know for August, we are getting around 181,5000 vaccines each week for August.
Now we were vaccinating almost 100,000 doses only four weeks ago.
Even with the supply we’re going to each week in August, we’re not going to be able to vaccinate at the rate that we were four weeks ago. We’re still going have to slow down and tell people that their bookings are going to be October, November, December.
So I’m asking the commonwealth, do absolutely everything possible for you to try to source more vaccines from overseas into the country. Not 2022, not 2023, but now.
The risk factors have changed, the variant has changed. We can see the dangerous nature and how contagious Delta variant is now that more children are at risk as well.
