Logan’s new vax hub to open on Saturday
Logan’s low vaccination rate will get a shot in the arm when a new jab centre opens tomorrow, near where 100 families are still in quarantine after a Covid case. VIDEO
Logan’s low vaccination rate will get a shot in the arm when a new vaccination hub opens tomorrow, near where a school went into lockdown last week after a truck driver tested positive to Covid.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the Mt Warren Park Sports complex was chosen because Logan’s immunisation rate was so low but said the centre would ramp up to giving 1000 people jabs every day.
It will be Logan’s third state-run vaccination hub with others already operating at Yarrabilba and the Logan Entertainment Centre, where more than 50,000 jabs have been delivered since it opened in mid-July.
Nearly 1000 families from the Mt Warren Park and Windaroo area were sent into isolation last week after a four-year-old girl and her brother, who had links to the truck driver, contracted Covid.
The premier inspected the hub as Logan City Council staff scrambled to set up the venue, which is home to sporting clubs and community groups, who have been moved out.
The premier warned students and families to wear masks when in public in a bid to keep the spread of the Delta strain to a minimum.
Eight truckies in Queensland have now tested positive to Covid in the past month.
Ms Palaszczuk said she was glad students at the state’s latest Covid outbreak hotspot, Sunnybank’s St Thomas More College, were wearing masks, unlike when there was an outbreak at Indooroopilly.
Logan residents were affected when the state government shut Windaroo State School, the largest primary school in the area, last week.
There are still 100 local families in quarantine. They had links to a Mt Warren Park Early Learning Centre and after-hours school care.
Macalister MP Melissa McMahon said the affected Mt Warren Park family, who had members in hospital, was “doing it tough”.
“The community is really with them on this,” she said.
“This is a community venue and there have been some sporting groups that have been moved along but what we are doing is making sure we can face the next challenge and to get the community fully vaccinated.
“Once we have those big vaccination rates it means our community and sporting groups can have confidence to continue to complete, train and represent their local areas.”
Mrs McMahon said the Logan Entertainment Centre would continue to be a vaccination hub until the city’s rate of immunity rose.
People will have to book to get into the Mt Warren Park venue for the first few days but it is hoped that by next week, it will be able to cater for those who walk in without bookings.
Access Community Services, also in Logan, started its own vaccination program this week with support from Refugee Health Network QLD and Metro South Health.
About 60 people a day are getting the Pfizer vaccination at the centre.
