Annastasia Palaszczuk urges state residents to increase their vaccination rates

queensland Its vaccination rate has been urged to increase as the premier and chief health officer warned that the entry of the delta variant into the state was inevitable and would be uncontrollable.

Premier Annastasia Palaszczuk once again warned that ‘the delta will come here’ once the country’s borders are reopened, as she announced no new community cases of transmission in the state on Wednesday.

‘We have a walk-in so there’s no excuse,’ she said. We need to get our vaccination rates as high as possible before we have outbreaks.’

His comments were supported by Chief Health Officer Dr. Janet Young.

Dr Young said, ‘We will see that the delta version will come and it will not be controlled.

‘The only control would be the number of people vaccinated.’

People queue at a mass vaccination center on the South Bank in Brisbane. Chief Health Officer Dr. Janet Young predicted that the delta variant would enter the state and would not be controlled. “The only control would be, the number of people getting vaccinated,” she said.

Ms Palaszczuk said 67.76 percent of Queenslanders have now received a single dose of the vaccine, while 48.89 percent are now fully vaccinated.

During a press conference at a vaccination center in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, Ms Palaszczuk pointed to people in Logan, Budesart, Ipswich and the Sunshine Coast as areas where vaccination rates needed to be lifted.

The state announced that vaccination bookings can now be made through Queensland’s check-in app.

Ms Palaszczuk defended her government’s recent controversial comments regarding Commonwealth funding of Queensland’s health system to prepare it for an expected delta outbreak.

Ms Palaszczuk said: “In Victoria they are seeing a much bigger boom than they are seeing in NSW because, especially in NSW, they have not had to deal with virus outbreaks like Delta.”

‘This is what is happening across the country and that is why we are putting a lot of effort into preparing our hospitals and now is the time for more collaboration between the Commonwealth and the states.

‘This is a concern that has been shared not only [states] Health Minister but also by AMA.’

Ms Palaszczuk scolded a reporter for ‘mixing these messages’ in relation to her government’s stance on federal funding of the state’s hospital system.

‘These are pressures being experienced across the country and with Delta, you add more pressure,’ she said.

‘That’s why we’re working very actively with all our hospitals and health services.’

He cited data from NSW where people waited an hour for an ambulance as a result of the extra pressure brought on the system by the Delta version.

Queensland’s vaccination rate is on a similar level between the states and territories of Australia as Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Pictured: People walking in the Brisbane CBD

Queensland’s vaccination rate is on a similar level between the states and territories of Australia as Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Ms Palaszczuk stressed that despite reports Queensland would not reopen to 80 per cent of the eligible population, the state continued to follow the national plan.

‘We’ve got a target to make sure we have 80 percent of the double dose vaccinations, but what I said yesterday is they have 93 percent in the act [vaccination].

‘To protect Queenslanders I’d like to see more Queenslanders get vaccinated which will reduce our risk if and when we do get those outbreaks.

“Booster shots are part of the national plan, so ask the Prime Minister the plan for booster shots, that is also in the plan.

‘When you’re not cherrypicking other parts of the national plan, don’t just cherrypick parts of the national plan.’

Health Minister Yvette d’Ethe said Queenslanders would learn to live with Covid but warned against ‘contagious hotspots’.

‘We don’t want community’