PHOTO: Coonamble Aboriginal Health Service nurse Wendy Copelin injects Times reporter River McCrossen with his influenza vaccine.
Local health practitioners are urging residents to take the jab as flu season kicks off early in Australia.
Influenza vaccines are available for free at the Coonamble Aboriginal Health Service (CAHS), and staff say inquiries have ramped up over the last couple of months.
Practice nurse Wendy Copelin said she thinks there’s been a dip in uptake in the last two years after the pandemic “because everyone was over having the . . .
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