Low jab rates earn Caboolture, Logan extra Pfizer doses

The Premier is pushing out more doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Logan and Caboolture communities after data showed alarmingly low take up rates in both areas.

Inside the Logan Entertainment Centre where more doses of the Pfizer vaccine will soon be available.

Logan and Caboolture will extra supplies of the Pfizer vaccine after those communities were singled out by the premier as having low inoculation rates.

The federal government was able to get an additional 136,890 doses of the Pfizer vaccine for Queensland, which Ms Palaszczuk said would be distributed to centres at Logan and Caboolture.

Queensland Health said 43.8 per cent of people across the state had had at least one vaccination.

But in Logan, the rate was only 33.9 per cent.

In the Moreton region it was 44.7 per cent.

However, Queensland Health said some parts of Moreton Bay, such as Caboolture, had lower coverage rates.

“We want to expand the capacity at Logan and Caboolture and across the southeast we want to make sure that our vaccination levels are roughly equal across the southeast,” the premier said.

“We are seeing lower take-up rates in those communities and I want to make sure that we get some of the extra vaccine out to those communities.

The line-up at the Logan Entertainment Centre.

“Over the next couple of days we will be ramping up the capacity there.”

Vaccination centres at Logan Entertainment Centre and at Caboolture Square Shopping Centre were making it easier for people in both communities to get vaccinated.

Caboolture Hospital executive director Angie Dobbrick said Caboolture Hospital had leased a large area in Caboolture Square Shopping Centre to deliver up to 400 COVID-19 vaccinations per day, potentially growing further as more supply from Pfizer becomes available.

There were no new cases of Covid recorded in Queensland overnight but there are still 129 active cases and 3325 people in home quarantine with 9209 tests conducted over the weekend.

Queensland Health conducted 6724 vaccines in 24 hours over the weekend and 3080 were vaccinated at Brisbane Entertainment Centre.