Community vaccination hub for under-50s opens at Rocklea

The first of Brisbane’s 14 community hubs to vaccinate younger people against Covid-19 has opened in the city’s south.

The Rocklea Showgrounds has opened as Brisbane’s first of 14 community hubs to inoculate younger people.

The Courier-Mail can reveal people are being booked in and are receiving the Pfizer vaccine after registering their interest last week.

The community hubs come as Queensland moves towards setting up mass vaccination hubs later in the year when supply is set to increase.

Health Minister Yvette D’Ath last week said she was very confident the 14 hubs would be open before July and that vaccines could be offered to under 40s soon.

It’s understood surplus vaccines will be used at the hubs after Ms D’Ath revealed last week that health workers were frequently getting six shots out of the Pfizer vials, which were planned to provide five.

It meant that five appointments could only be made per vial, even if there were six shots.

Four sites are already open in the regions.

“We will be opening up more in the future (and) we will be offering Pfizer in all of those community hubs,” Ms D’Ath said on Wednesday.