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

I thank the member for Maribyrnong. At this point in time, on the latest advice that I received from the National Incident Room shortly before coming to question time, we have had 17,311 disability residents. That represents approximately 63.6 per cent of residents. In addition to that, the total number of residents who've received second doses is 12,132, or 44.5 per cent of residents.

What I particularly want to do is encourage all of those residents. In particular, I want to encourage their friends and family to support them and to assist with making sure that there's consent, agreement and confidence to accept that vaccination. That is an extremely important part that each and every one of us can play. In addition, with regard to the outreach program to ensure that we are working with those residents, what we have is a program for all of the facilities across Australia.

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

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