COVID-19 vaccination, which is still under TGA Provisional Registration, are now mandatory for all Healthcare workers as per a Direction handed down by the State Coordinator, Grantly Stevens, under the state of emergency for which a declared “outbreak” of the disease COVID-19 has occurred in South Australia.
There are three phases.
- Phase 1 (hospital and ambulance) Healthcare workers who do not comply by November 1, 2021, under this direction will not be allowed to return to work,
- phase 2 workers by November 8, 2021, and
- Phase 3 by December 6, 2021.
An amendment made to direction on the 8th November provided an exemption option for other vaccine trial participants.