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Offer a free pack of durries with every jab and then see those numbers skyrocket.The number of people coming forward for their first COVID-19 vaccine in Adelaide’s northern suburbs has not increased despite efforts to boost lagging jab rates, with parts of the region not forecast to hit 80 per cent double dose vaccination until the end of the year.
The latest federal government figures, correct as of Sunday, show the northern suburbs of Playford and Salisbury are at 56 and 63.6 per cent fully vaccinated for over-16s.
That’s compared to a statewide double-dose vaccination average of 70.6 per cent, with 83.8 per cent of South Australians over the age of 16 having received at least one dose of a vaccine.Salisbury is edging closer to the 80 per cent single dose milestone, with 79.5 per cent in the area having come forward for a jab. Playford is around five points behind at 74.3 per cent single dosed.
Yet the percentage of over-16s in Playford to receive a first dose increased by only 3.8 points this week, marginally down on the 4.2 and 4.5 point increases the area recorded in the two weeks before. Similarly, Salisbury only recorded a 3.1 point growth in first dose vaccinations – its lowest-ever recorded weekly increase and well down on its previous average first dose growth of 3.61 points per week.
More positively, the number of fully vaccinated residents in Playford and Salisbury grew by 4.7 percentage points, the largest increase recorded in both areas since the federal government began publishing local government area vaccination data on August 27.
According to updated projections from South Australian data scientist Ben Moretti, Playford is now on track to reach the 80 per cent double-dose milestone on January 2 – five days earlier than his model’s previous projections, but still more than five weeks after the state reopens its borders on November 23.





