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Point Cook triplets Ella, Max and Will are among the many teenagers in Melbourne’s western suburbs who are keen to re-connect with family and friends after getting a COVID-19 vaccination. The 16-year-old siblings received their vaccinations at the Laverton Respiratory Hub last week. Mother Nicole said the triplets had wanted to get a vaccine as soon as they were able to, so they could safely return to school and playing sport. Most importantly, Nicole said Will, Max and Ella were especially looking forward to visiting their Pa, who lives in Ballarat and has pancreatic cancer. Nicole said the triplets wanted to encourage other young people to get vaccinated against coronavirus. “It is such a positive story of moving towards opening up and they are excited,” she said. Werribee MP Joanne Ryan has also praised Wyndham residents who have been vaccinated. “To my community, I want to say, this is a race and I’m glad to see that you’re in it,” she said. Triplets Will, Ella and Max.
Do the right thing: GP A prominent western suburbs doctor has called out those breaching chief health officer directions during the COVID lockdown. Australian Medical Association state council chairman Mukesh Haikerwal said the system wouldn’t work unless everyone complied. It comes as an Altona North family – widely misreported as coming from Newport – was visited by police for allegedly failing to comply with COVID isolation requirements. A Victoria Police spokesperson said officers were called to help Department Health staff at
the family’s Altona North home. “Victoria Police assisted authorised officers from the Department of Health serve a Direction and Detention Notice on the occupants of an address in Altona North [Wednesday],” the spokesperson said. “At the time police attended there were no identified breaches of chief health officer directions.” A Department of Health spokesperson said family members had been served notices to remain in their homes and the premises would be monitored. Dr Haikerwal, who is delivering vaccines at both the Altona North Respiratory Clinic
and a trial ‘surge centre’ at Altona Badminton Centre, said people not following the rules were putting everyone “in jeopardy”. “The system works on fairness, telling the truth and sticking to the rules, and each one of those is not being followed,” he said. “People are not being fair: they’re booking three or four different appointments in different places just so they can be head of the crowd - and not cancelling. “They’re not being truthful: they’re coming and saying that they have no symptoms when they have. And also they’re not complying. “And each of those things is putting us all in jeopardy.”
Dr Haikerwal said he had faced abuse for asking people to do the right thing. “Why should they get away with it when I keep getting clobbered every time they completely stuff up the system by not doing the right thing? “Why is it when I tell somebody to take their mask from under their chin to over their nose where it should be, that they abuse me? “By doing what they’re doing, they’re potentially contaminating everybody around them and they don’t care.” The health deapartment reported 445 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, of which 38 were in Wyndham and 15 in Hobsons Bay.
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