First-dose vaccination rates increasing in Melbourne’s north and west - The Age

The Melbourne local government area with the highest rate of active COVID-19 cases has recorded the biggest proportional increase in first doses administered last week, health department data shows.

The data also shows that more than one in six Victorians aged between 12 and 15 received their first vaccine dose last week after becoming eligible for Pfizer from last Monday.

In Hume, in Melbourne’s north, 64.5 per cent of those aged 15 and above have received their first vaccine dose, up from 55 per cent last Monday. That translates to just over 17,000 Hume residents getting their first dose over the past seven days.

You can see the percentage of people aged 15+ who have received their first dose in your local area using the maps below:

If you click your area on the map, you can also see the percentage of the population which is fully vaccinated and how the vaccination rates have increased over the past week.

Other areas in Melbourne’s north and west with high active case rates such as Melton, Whittlesea and Wyndham also included among the biggest increases in first-dose rates over the past week.

In Wyndham, in Melbourne’s west, which currently has the fifth-highest active case rate of the state’s 79 local government areas, three-quarters of the 15+ population has now received their first vaccine dose.

The federal health department releases data on vaccination rates by local government area every Monday. That information is loaded into our vaccine data tracker around 5pm.

Vaccination rates by age group

Health department data also shows how younger Victorians have rushed to get vaccinated since the start of the sixth lockdown.

The graph below shows how the first-dose percentage in each age group has climbed since the start of last month:

Among those aged 16-39, the pace of vaccine take-up has increased since around the end of August, when this age group became eligible for Pfizer at state hubs and GPs.

As of Monday morning, 57.7 per cent of 16-39 year-olds had received their first dose, compared with 77.5 per cent of 40-49 year-olds, 84.1 per cent of 50-69 year-olds and more than 90 per cent of those aged over 70.

In the week since 12-15 year-olds became eligible for the Pfizer vaccine, 16.9 per cent of this age group - or just over 52,000 people - have received their first dose.

When it comes to second doses, the biggest increase in percentage terms has been in those aged 50 and above:

At the start of August, 16.6 per cent of those aged between 50 and 70 were fully vaccinated in Victoria (about one in six), but over the past seven or so weeks, that percentage has increased to 64.4 per cent (almost four in six).

And more than 70 per cent of those aged over 70 have received both vaccine doses, the health department data shows.

Among 16-39 year-olds, the fully vaccinated lags considerably behind, although this should increase once enough time passes that those in this age group can receive their second vaccine dose.

A quick note on the data: Statewide percentages are expressed in terms of the population aged 16 and above, but the local government area percentages are expressed in terms of the population aged 15 and above. This mismatch is because of limitations of the ABS population estimates for different-sized areas.)

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