Australia’s vaccine rollout across the aged care system began this week, and was soon marred by a serious error and slower-than-anticipated distribution in some states. But HCA has begun missing deadlines and failing to supply vaccines to some aged care facilities in New South Wales and Queensland. Moran Aged Care at Engadine, BaptistCare home in Caloola and the Forrest Centre Aged Care in Wagga Wagga have also reported delays. The company has now been placed “on notice of termination” and any further error will see the company’s vaccine rollout contract torn up, Hunt said. Yates expressed confidence that the processes behind the vaccine rollout were sound, and expected the teething problems to be resolved in coming weeks.

Source: The Guardian February 25, 2021 16:30 UTC