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What’s the likelihoodof catching Covid-19if you’re fully vaccinated?
Words: Helena BurkeProducer: Issey Gogoll
How are we tracking?
Australia is vaccinating its way to freedom, with the national ratepassing set targets to get us moving out of the pandemic.
What does it mean for us? 
Health Minister Greg Hunt has revealed that four per cent of fully vaccinated Australians are still catching Covid-19.
Covid-19 has a mortality rate of 1.06 per cent in Australia.
  Am I fully protected?  
Even if you catch Covid-19 despite being fully vaccinated, the chance of becoming seriously ill is still very low for Australians who are double-dosed.
What's the risk? 
The Health Minister said getting the jab would diminish most people’s risk of being hospitalised with Covid-19 to almost nothing.
Source: 2CC Breakfast
Around 1,400 Aussies are currently in hospital with the virus, including 288 people in Intensive Care Units across the country. 
Vaccinated people 
  are more protected 
Of the 4654 people hospitalised with Covid-19 over that period, three per cent were double-dosed.
“The vaccine is your frontline … We want everybody, everywhere to take the vaccine.”
- Health Minister,Greg Hunt
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