COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout

Mr PICTON (Kaurna) (14:50): My question is to the Premier. Why have only half of our emergency department and infectious disease workers been vaccinated against COVID at our major COVID hospital three weeks into the rollout? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr PICTON: Yesterday the health minister, the Hon. Stephen Wade, revealed, and I quote:

In terms of the Royal Adelaide Hospital, I am advised, as in terms of their frontline workers, particularly the emergency department and the, um, infectious diseases department, they are more than 50 per cent vaccinated.

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:51): Well, we are working through the people in phase 1a in a prioritised way. I think that as of yesterday morning we had over 7,000 who had been vaccinated and more than 7,000 who had booked in for either their first or second shot. We are working through it in a prioritised way. We are taking the advice of SA Health, and that vaccine program is being rolled out as effectively and as safely as we possibly can.