The first phase of COVID-19 vaccinations will start in Tasmania during the last week of February 2021.
All Tasmanians are encouraged to be vaccinated, but when you will get a vaccine depends on COVID risk factors like: your age, your job and your health.
The vaccine will first be given to people who are at higher-risk of getting COVID or getting very sick from it. These people are described as being in Phase 1 A. They are:
- Staff working in designated quarantine and border facilities.
- Frontline health care staff working in higher risk locations.
- Residents and staff of residential aged care and disability care facilities.
These people will be contacted directly to make an appointment to receive the vaccine. A booking system will be put in place for the next stages of the vaccine rollou
