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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
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COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:29): My question is to the Premier. Does the Premier have any targets for vaccination rollout for the second quarter of this calendar year or for the remainder of this financial year for the vaccines that the Premier and his government are responsible for administering—any targets at all?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:30): I have tried to provide a pretty comprehensive update—

The Hon. S.C. Mullighan interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Lee!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —on what we are doing. Maybe some people on that side of the house are obsessed with a number.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order, member for Ramsay!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: That can't be given because, for the reasons that I have outlined in the last question, and indeed the question before that, it really is dependent—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —upon how many of the clinics can get stood up. What we are doing at the moment, and we have been working on this since last year, is making sure that we have adequately trained, skilled personnel to administer these vaccines within our own hospitals and hubs that emanate from those hospitals and also working with the commonwealth government to make sure that vaccinations for people living in aged-care facilities, disability facilities and then the broader population occur in a risk-oriented, risk-managed way.

I welcome the Leader of the Opposition's interest in the vaccine program. It is, as Professor Paul Kelly and Professor Brendan Murphy say, the largest peacetime logistical exercise in the history of Australia. What we know is that South Australia has led the way in terms of our response to the coronavirus, first of all with our sky-high testing rates here in South Australia through the excellent work of SA Pathology.

I would now like to congratulate the people of South Australia on the excellent way they have adopted the QR check-in. On last viewing, I think we had something like 1.3 million unique users of the QR code check-in app in South Australia. These are extraordinary. This is an extraordinary penetration.

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: It's the interest and the cooperation that we have with the people in South Australia that has kept our state protected. It has kept our state healthy and it has kept our economy strong.

The SPEAKER: Before I call the leader, I call to order the member for Wright, I warn for a second time the member for Playford, I call to order the member for Ramsay and I warn for a second time the member for Lee.

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