Covid vaccination providers: Data reveals Victoria has 1697 clinics offering up the jab

New data has revealed Victorians have 1000 fewer Covid vaccine providers than NSW. See where you can get the jab in our interactive search.

New data has revealed where every vaccine clinic and hub is located across Victoria.

There are a total of 1697 clinics across the state in total, encompassing those supplying Pfizer and those supplying AstraZeneca.

Department of Health data, obtained by Leader, reveals 2650 providers are offering Covid vaccinations in NSW, while 524 providers were recorded in South Australia and 1507 in Queensland.

Dr Adrienne Chan administers Callum Silcock’s AstraZeneca vaccination. Picture: Aaron Francis

There were 876 clinics in Western Australia, 524 in South Australia and 170 in the ACT.

In Tasmania, residents have 135 hubs to receive the jab, while the Northern Territory has 73.

When it comes to access to the Pfizer vaccine, Victoria has 384 clinics offering that jab across the state.

Meanwhile, there are 723 providers offering the jab in NSW.

A total of 332 clinics are providing it in Queensland, while in WA, there are 229 GPs and vaccine hubs administering Pfizer.

Staff prepare AstraZeneca vaccine doses inside the Melbourne Showgrounds COVID-19 Vaccination Centre. Picture: Getty Images

In South Australia, there are 124 available centres, with 83 in the ACT, 35 in Tasmania and 16 in the Northern Territory.

The federal government declined to release vaccination administrator data, which led News Corp to work to obtain the information through the Ministry of Health’s vaccination eligibility portal.

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The release of the data across the country comes as clinicians criticised the way the federal government determined the clinics rolling out the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines.

Director of Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute Maximilian de Courten said supply was the greatest obstacle to widespread vaccination in Victoria.

“The key is having enough access – once we have enough vaccines, it’s whether we have enough centres, trained people and needles to actually get it out,” Professor de Courten said.

“Getting pharmacies on board can really help as well, but again, it’s getting enough vaccine supply.”

Professor de Courten said the lack of supply continued to cause the rollout’s “bottleneck” and again called for the government to licence existing vaccines and start producing them in Australia.

Director of Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute Maximilian de Courten. Picture: Victoria University

“We need to invest in the local mRNA production,” Professor de Courten said.

“Australia is investing in local development of vaccines and that takes 12 months to two years at best, whereas we’re saying in order to overcome the supply issue, do as we did with AstraZeneca and licence an existing one.”

Professor de Courten said the disparity between clinic numbers in NSW and Victoria could be explained by the difference in population centres, where NSW had many more cities with populations above 10,000 requiring their own clinics than Victoria.

Meanwhile, Australian Medical Association president Dr Omar Khorshid said the organisation was convinced all Australians wanting the vaccine would have access to both doses by the end of the year.

Health Minister Greg Hunt and Australian Medical Association president Dr Omar Khorshid at Parliament House. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

“That doesn’t mean that everyone will have fronted up,” he said.

“But I hope what’s happening in Sydney right now, what’s happening around the world, is a wake-up call for every Australian who is eligible and who hasn’t yet fronted up for their vaccine to go and do that because that is a thing you can do.

“It’s the only way for our country to get out of this situation when our borders are closed, we can’t go anywhere, we can’t do what we want, and half the population is in lockdown.”

The federal government’s latest data on the Covid vaccine rollout revealed 1.529 million doses had been administer across the state by July 25, with 15,552 administered within a 24-hour period.

The federal Health Department was contacted and is yet to respond to questions.

Additional reporting by Jordan Lewis