Victoria has been encouraged by the federal Health Minister Greg Hunt to launch a mass COVID-19 vaccination program in schools to boost vaccination rates so mask mandates can be removed for students. The state has maintained masks for students in grades three to six despite being the state with the highest vaccination rates for children aged 5 to 11 in Australia (pdf). Speaking at the press conference on Feb. 23, the Minister for Health Greg Hunt said that in the light of the federal government pushing for a mass vaccination program across the states, he recognised that Victoria has “taken a different path.” Hunt said if the decision Victoria made “is about vaccination rates, which as I say are some of the highest in the world, then the best way to turbocharge those school-based vaccination rates is with a school-based program. “They know how to do it, they’re good at …
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