Victorian areas with the lowest vaccination rate

OSTN Staff

One in every five people aged over 15 in the region (25.9 per cent) have had two shots of a Covid-19 vaccine and 51.4 per cent have had at least one jab.Residents of Melbourne’s North West are the least vaccinated population in the state the first official federal government figures showing vaccination rates by region have revealed. Just 15.6 per cent of people who live there have had two shots of a Covid-19 vaccine and only 34.7 per cent have had a t least one jab.Bendigo is fast catching up with Geelong.That region boasts the most number of people who have had at least one dose of a Covid-19 shot.Half the population (52.6 per cent) have had one shot of the vaccine and 25.1 per cent have had two needles.In Warnambool and the South West 51.6 per cent of people aged over 15 have had one jab and 23 per cent two jabs.Victoria Vaccine LocatorIn other regions including Hume and La Trobe, Mornington Peninsula half the population has had at least one shot of a vaccine.In Shepparton and the North West over 45 per cent of people have had at least one jab.In Melbourne people living in both the inner and outer suburbs are lagging behind in the vaccination tally.In Inner Melbourne only 37.7 per cent of people have had a first dose of the vaccine in the North East just 39.8 per cent have had a first shot in the West just 34.8 per cent have had a single shot.Half (49 per cent) of the residents of Melbourne’s Inner South have had a single shot and 23.1 per cent have had two jabs.Nearly half (47.4 per cent) of those in the Inner East have had a single shot and 22.4 per cent have had two.

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