NSW's COVID-19 vaccination rate has surged to rank among the fastest in the world based on data from the past seven days, an ABC analysis shows.
Key points:
- NSW's vaccination rate is similar to that of Paraguay and Cuba
- Australia has administered 1.8 million doses in the last seven days
- An expert has warned NSW's vaccination rate is unsustainable
NSW health minister Brad Hazzard at the weekend claimed the vaccination rate in NSW "may well be" the fastest in the world.
It's not far off.
Based on data from August 16 to 22, Australia's largest state is administering 1.4 vaccinations per 100 people per day.
Excluding countries that have populations of less than 1 million, the NSW rate was slightly behind Ecuador, Malaysia and South Korea, and very similar to Paraguay and Cuba.
It's comfortably ahead of the best weeks recorded in the United States (1.0 on April 14) and United Kingdom (0.88 on May 26).
About 8.1 million people call NSW home.
The ACT holds the crown for Australia's fastest vaccination rollout with a seven-day average of 3.1, although it's population is around 20 times smaller than NSW.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday said Australia had administered 1.8 million doses in the past seven days.
Analysis of international vaccination rates showed that Australia, with a rate of 1.01 vaccines per 100 people, just pipped the best US rate and was higher than the best UK rate.
Greater Sydney is entering its ninth week of lockdown amid a growing COVID-19 outbreak, and stay-at-home orders were imposed on all parts of NSW earlier this month after the virus spread to regional areas.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejikian has repeatedly promised that some people in the state will be given more freedoms when vaccination milestones are achieved, including 6 million jabs — which is likely to be reached today.
Other key targets include having 70 per cent and 80 per cent of the eligible adult population fully inoculated.
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)Fiona Stanaway, clinical epidemiologist at the University of Sydney, said NSW's blistering vaccination rate was unlikely to be sustained as the state approached the 70 and 80 per cent milestones.
"What you would expect to happen is that there's people that are really willing to get vaccinated," she said.
"At the moment you've got people that hadn't been eligible before, like the 18 to 40s, that are really keen to get to get vaccinated."
She said the outbreak in NSW would have pushed some people who were hesitant to get vaccinated to get the jab, along with those who were planning to wait.
She said the rate would slow as the vaccine hesitant became the only people not inoculated.
Dr Stanaway said the outbreak had increased uptake of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
"All this language around the best vaccine is the one that you can get now, so I think that has really reduced the hesitancy," she said.
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)Ms Berejiklian yesterday said the message now was "whatever vaccine you can get your hands on, please come forward and get vaccinated".
She said people in NSW could expect to find out the government's blueprint for easing restrictions later this week.
Dr Stanaway said a general information campaign would be needed to reach the last groups of Australians who were reluctant to be vaccinated.
She said it was important to administer vaccines in religious centres and local pharmacies, as was being done in some parts of Sydney, so people could get advice from those they trusted.
"That's sort of the group that as we get towards the end, we have to make sure we mop up and in fact, we should be doing it now, because they're probably also the groups that are more at risk of getting COVID," she said.
Federal government data released last night showed the biggest increases in people getting their first dose of vaccine in NSW was in the Blacktown area (up 11 per cent over the past week).
The Parramatta, inner south-west and south-west regions were all up 10 per cent over the same period.
First dose vaccinations were up 9 per cent in the far west and Orana region, where outbreaks in Dubbo, Walgett and Wilcannia have seen case numbers growing.
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