Greg Hunt said on Tuesday the state had the lowest vaccine ordering rate in the country, taking only 78 per cent of the doses set aside for Queensland last week. Ms D’Ath told reporters on Wednesday Queensland had ordered all the vaccines they believed were portioned to Queensland and did not know there was tens of thousands on offer sitting idle.“We werent told there 60,000 available to us to order,” Ms D’Ath said.“So this is the game being played right now.“To find out there were 60,000 available for us to order… We’ll take them and (are) hoping that they arrive tomorrow.”She said the Morrison Government needed to stop playing games.“I’m a bit tired of the rhetoric … if there’s a vaccine (available), give it to the states,” she said. The news of more vaccines being available comes as Queensland recorded zero new Covid cases, allaying fears from several recent scares, including an infected truck driver that led to a four-year-old contracting the virus,Ms D’Ath said more than 13,000 tests were conducted overnight and because all close contacts were in quarantine, all visiting rights for local hospitals and aged-care facilities in Logan have been lifted.She said there had been more than 23,000 vaccinations with 53.76 per cent of Queenslanders receiving their first dose and 35 per cent having had two doses.
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