Where is our vaccine hub? Ballarat lags behind other cities on COVID-19 vaccine hub roll-out | The Courier

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Ballarat residents are no closer to knowing when a mass COVID vaccination centre will open, despite most major regional Victorian cities already rolling out the jabs or at least having a venue for a vaccine hub identified. Bendigo’s mass vaccination hub welcomed its first patients yesterday, while Geelong has set up a clinic in the old Ford factory, Warrnambool started works on its clinic last month and Albury Wodonga Health has identified a former supermarket as the home for its clinic. The Geelong site will have the capacity to vaccinate more than 10,000 people a week depending on stock supply of the vaccine, and Warrnambool will have capacity to treat 40,000 people within 12 months. But Ballarat is lagging behind…