Wagga's major vaccination hub has recorded its biggest day of jabs so far, as federal health statistics revealed one fifth of the Riverina's residents are now fully vaccinated against the virus.
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The latest numbers show 22.2 per cent of the Riverina's population aged over 15 is fully vaccinated against COVID, up from 18.7 per cent last week, whilst 46.2 per cent have had one dose - up from 43.5 per cent last week.
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Ayman Shenouda, who runs the federal vaccination hub at Glenrock Country Practice, said the practice had its biggest day of vaccinations so far on Monday, giving out more than 300 doses in the course of the day - 180 doses of Pfizer and 150 of AstraZeneca.
"We are fully booked," Dr Shenouda said. "Yesterday we did 300 jabs which was actually exceeding our limits, it was the biggest day we've had so far."
Dr Shenouda said the huge numbers are party due to second doses coming in from the first AstraZeneca cohort who were jabbed in May and the ongoing Covid outbreak across the state.
Overall, he said the city was performing well comparatively, with the Riverina ranked 13 out of 28 regions for the number of second doses, and 14 for first.
"I think we always want to do better but we're doing very well considering we're a regional area and we're competing with the numbers in the big cities," he said.
The most vaccinated area is North Sydney and Hornsby, where 32 per cent is fully vaccinated and 57.6 per cent partially.
Meanwhile, the Far West and Orana region was the lowest with 16.3 per cent fully vaccinated and 36.9 per cent partially vaccinated.
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