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Jabs on offer at Gathering Place A TEMPORARY vaccine clinic will open in Mordialloc for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Derrimut Weelam Gathering Place at 199 Beach Rd, Mordialloc will host a COVID vaccination clinic for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from 9.30am to 4.30pm on 8 September. The clinic is run in partnership with Dandenong & District Aborigines Co-Operative Limited, Connect Health, and Central Bayside Health. Both Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs will be available. The Derrimut Weelam Gathering Place group have recently had to postpone multiple events because of COVID-19 restrictions. The Spring Blak Market has been rescheduled to Saturday 30 October. The event will feature market stalls run by Indigenous artists. Plans are still in place for DWGP to run a Family Footy Day from 10am to 3pm on 23 September. It will also host three online talks this month, and an online Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid event. To find out more about DWGP events visit facebook.com/derrimutweelamgatheringplace
KINGSTON mayor Steve Staikos at a NAIDOC Week event hosted by Derrimut Weelam Gathering Place. Picture: Yanni
Wastewater warning issued to residents Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au COVID-19 has been detected in wastewater in local suburbs. The Victorian Department of Health issued a warning to people in Aspendale, Aspendale Gardens, Bonbeach, Carrum, Chelsea, Chelsea Heights, Edithvale, Mordialloc, Patterson Lakes, and Seaford last week. COVID-19 was detected in the
wastewater of those suburbs between 23 and 26 August. An Edithvale cafe was named a tier two COVID-19 exposure site this week. Anyone who attended The Crowded Hour at 264 Nepean Highway, Edithvale between 7.15am and 8am on 25 August must get tested immediately and isolate until a negative result comes back. The exposure site is related to a positive case associated with Edithvale level crossing removal works.
There is just one confirmed COVID-19 case among Kingston residents as of 30 August. At a media conference on 31 August, Premier Daniel Andrews said that the state’s vaccination program was ramping up. “On vaccines, some 32,162 vaccines were administered yesterday in the state clinics, an 8 per cent increase on the same day the week before. I thank each of those people for making an appointment and turning up and getting their shot.
It has never been more important to drive up the first and second dose vaccine rates. (...) This weekend just passed we saw a 20 per cent increase in the number of people getting a jab.” “As more vaccines become available throughout September, October and November, we will reach those national plan targets of 70 and 80 per cent and that will be meaningful to the way we live our lives,” he said.
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