Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

That is in fact an additional tender over and above that which has already been in place. As I mentioned earlier, we have now delivered vaccines to 100 per cent of residential aged-care facilities through the four principal providers—Aspen Medical, SOS, Healthcare Australia and Sonic. All of those four have completed 100 per cent of first dose vaccination visits. At 94.9 per cent, they are currently going through the process of completing the last five per cent of that, three weeks after the first one. In addition, at the request of the sector, we have made sure there is also the capacity for those firms or facilities which wish to provide vaccinations to their own workers to do that. An example was TLC, which has done that in Victoria, I believe, across 13 facilities. It is one of five principal channels we have for vaccinations of aged-care workers. The first of those, of course, has been the provider in-reach. The second, which is being referred to here, is the capacity for individual facilities to do as TLC has done, and a number of—

Mr Albanese interjecting—

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