Queensland rollout

• Priority frontline health care workers, staff who work in:
  • direct clinical care to COVID-19 positive individuals
  • COVID-19/Infectious Disease Wards
  • Emergency Departments
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Queensland Ambulance Service frontline responders
  • Fever and Respiratory Clinics
  • public and private (international) aeromedical retrieval teams
  • pathology staff, medical researchers and scientists working with SARS-CoV-2
• Priority quarantine and border workers:
  • staff who work in quarantine facilities including workers who deliver health services, personal services, security services, all front and back of house hotel and cleaning services, and passenger transport services
  • staff who work in air and sea border security including relevant Australian Federal
    Police and Queensland Police Service staff
  • Queensland residents working in international air crew
  • marine pilots
• Aged care and disability care workers (vaccination rollout managed by the Australian Government Health department)
• Aged care and disability care residents (vaccination rollout managed by the Australian Government Health department)

Estimated population: 125k, up to 250k doses

• elderly adults aged 70 years and over
• other health care workers
  • All workers in Queensland Health facilities who have contact with the public. As a guide this includes:
    • clinical staff including assistants
    • interpreters
    • volunteers
    • laboratory staff
    • ancillary staff such as administrative staff, IT support, kitchen staff, cleaners, maintenance, hospital retailers, security
    • contractors, locum and agency staff
    • health professional students on placement.
  • Queensland Health Healthcare workers including students and support staff who have contact with the public in all other settings.
  • Healthcare workers in private practice
  • Any other healthcare workers not employed by Queensland Health
• disability and aged care workers
  • Essential carers (paid and unpaid) including carers who are also family members of someone with disability or an elderly person
  • Individuals not already vaccinated who have contact with clients in any care setting (e.g. residential facility, in-home, short-term out-of-home, respite, community care, centre-based care and leisure settings)
  • Individuals who are volunteers and provide support to a person with a disability or elderly person in any care setting
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults over 55
• younger adults with a specific underlying medical condition, including those with a disability
  • Who have a moderate risk of severe illness from COVID-19 if you have:
    • adult survivors of childhood cancers
    • a non-haematological cancer (diagnosed in the last 12 months)
    • some chronic inflammatory conditions and treatments other primary or acquired immunodeficiency
    • severe mental health conditions
    • chronic renal (kidney) failure
    • heart disease (coronary heart disease or failure)
    • chronic lung disease (excludes mild or moderate asthma)
    • diabetes
    • severe obesity with a BMI ≥ 40 (kg/m2)
    • chronic liver disease
    • some neurological conditions (stroke, dementia, other)
    • poorly controlled blood pressure
    • Down syndrome, muscular dystrophy, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury.
  • Who have a high risk of severe illness from COVID 19 if you:
    • have had an organ transplant and are on immune suppressive therapy
    • have had a bone marrow transplant in the last 24 months have haematological diseases or cancers including leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma
    • are on immune suppressive therapy for graft versus host disease.
• critical and high risk workers including defence, police, fire, emergency services, meat processing and other industry groups
  • Emergency service personnel (paid and unpaid) who have contact with the public. Workers include:
    • police
    • fire
    • emergency services
    • surf life savers
    • marine rescue
    • Queensland Corrective Services including Youth Detention Centres.
  • Licensed meat processing workers:
    • Abattoir workers, including attending veterinarians
    • Workers in boning rooms
    • Smallgoods manufacturers
    • Cold chain transport workforce
    • Seafood processing
  • Workers at international airports
  • Maritime industry workers
  • Workers involved in manufacture and distribution/delivery of COVID-19 vaccines
  • Active Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel and Australian Government officials about to be deployed or currently deployed overseas on official government business
• household contacts of quarantine workers, border workers and healthcare workers who are at a higher risk of having contact with COVID-positive patients

Estimated population: 1.049m, up to 2.098m doses

• Adults aged 50-69 years
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 18-54
• Other critical and high risk workers

Estimated population: 1.255m, up to 2.51m doses

• Balance of adult population
• Catch up any unvaccinated Australians from previous phases

Estimated population: 1.496m, up to 2.992m doses

People under the age of 18 if recommended

Estimated population: 1.177m, up to 2.354m doses