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  <date date="2021-05-04" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>COVID-19 Clinics</name>
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          <heading>COVID-19 Clinics</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5571" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr SZAKACS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Cheltenham</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-05-04">
            <name>COVID-19 Clinics</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5571">Mr SZAKACS (Cheltenham)</by> (3 March 2021).  </inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Education</name>
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          <question date="2021-05-04">
            <name>COVID-19 Clinics</name>
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        <text id="20210504d1219cc715ce4eb4b0001339">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="4343">The Hon. J.A.W. GARDNER (Morialta—Minister for Education):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has been advised:</inserted>
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        <text id="20210504d1219cc715ce4eb4b0001340">
          <inserted>A number of sites in close proximity to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital were assessed prior to the establishment of the approved site. All were unsuitable for a number a reasons, which varied between sites.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Women's and Children's Hospital (WCH) COVID-19 testing clinic closed on 7 March 2021 due to low testing numbers and the establishment of the vaccination clinic at the hospital.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Victoria Park testing site has been identified as the preferred site to test children due to a number of WCH staff who are currently working at this site.</inserted>
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          <inserted>No further closures of testing sites in the metropolitan area are planned at this stage.</inserted>
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