- Title: Residents in Sydney's South West overcome hesitancy to get vaccinated
- Date: 11th August 2021
- Summary: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (AUGUST 11, 2021) (REUTERS) MAN TALKING TO HEALTH WORKER BEFORE BEING VACCINATED HEALTH WORKER TALKING ASTRAZENECA VACCINE NEEDLE GOING INTO MAN'S ARM / PLASTER BEING APPLIED MAN SITTING AFTER RECEIVING VACCINE VACCINE NEEDLE GOING INTO ARM OF ANOTHER PERSON PERSON HAVING PLASTER APPLIED ON ARM AFTER INJECTION PEOPLE SITTING IN VACCINATION CENTRE ALBERT AND JOANNE TRADE SITTING, AFTER ALBERT RECEIVED THE VACCINE (SOUNDBITE) (English) SOUTHWEST SYDNEY RESIDENT, JOANNE TRADE, SAYING: "I was actually hesitant, I think most of us were, in our family. It's just what you hear on social media or what you hear on the news and it's just conflicting information and so you really don't know what the right information is. But, we spoke to our doctor, spoke to the kidney specialist and he advised us to get AstraZeneca, advised us of the risks of the vaccine and then the risk of actually having COVID. So, you weigh the risks out and, yeah, you come to the decision of having the vaccine to protect yourself to protect your family, yeah." VACCINE NEEDLE GOING INTO ARM LOCAL RESIDENT, NICK, WITH MOBILE PHONE AFTER VACCINE (SOUNDBITE) (English) LOCAL RESIDENT, NICK, SAYING: "I didn't want to get the vaccine but now that construction's gone ahead, the work's there again, so the job's available, but if I'm not available, the job goes somewhere else. So, I needed to get the jab or else, I don't have a job." MOBILE PHONE IN NICK'S HAND (SOUNDBITE) (English) LOCAL RESIDENT, NICK, SAYING: "I do feel it's unfair. I feel like if you live in a different postcode then you don't have to get the jab to do the same job I have to do, with the jab. It's almost a violation of my human rights, I feel like I've been discriminated against." VARIOUS OF JOSH NAIDU TALKING TO NURSE BEFORE HIS VACCINE VACCINE NEEDLE GOING INTO NAIDU'S ARM NURSE TALKING TO NAIDU (SOUNDBITE) (English) LOCAL RESIDENT, JOSH NAIDU, SAYING: "This is the reason why I had to get it done, I couldn't wait three months and get paid nothing. Had to start working. It is a struggle but everyone's going to get there, we're going to get there sooner or later." CAMERON NEWCOMB SITTING AFTER RECEIVING HIS VACCINE (SOUNDBITE) (English) LOCAL RESIDENT, CAMERON NEWCOMB, SAYING: "I don't know anyone who's had the vaccine yet. None of my mates or anyone. First of family as well." NURSE TALKING TO PERSON AT TABLE
- Embargoed: 25th August 2021 07:54
- Keywords: AstraZeneca Australia COVID-19 South West Sydney Sydney coronavirus vaccination centre vaccine
- Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
- City: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Australia,Health/Medicine
- Reuters ID: LVA001EPU38LJ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Residents from Sydney's South West sat down at a local community club on Wednesday (August 11) to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in an area that has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Sydney.
At the Bankstown Sports Club, 40-year-old resident Joanne Trade told Reuters she was there to support her husband receiving the vaccine after a kidney transplant.
Trade told Reuters she received her first vaccination seven days ago and was hesitant, as she had read conflicting information on social media. After speaking to a doctor and weighing the risks, she decided to have the vaccine to protect her family.
Desperate to restart some major employment industries, the state of New South Wales has allowed some in the most-affected Sydney suburbs to return to construction jobs around the city, but they must first be vaccinated.
"I didn't want to get the vaccine but now that construction's gone ahead... I needed to get the jab or else, I don't have a job," said Nick, a 31-year-old truck driver for a civil engineering company. He declined to give his surname.
Apprentice plumber Cameron Newcomb, 20, who was also looking to return to work, said he was the first among his family and friends to get vaccinated.
With fewer than 25% of the country fully vaccinated, Australia is struggling to avoid stop-start lockdowns that some warn could tip Australia's economy into a second recession in as many years.
Federal and state governments have committed to ending lockdowns when 70% of the country's near 26 million population is vaccinated.
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