Health ministry targets communities in push to drive up vaccine rate

Local health authorities are stepping up efforts to improve the vaccination rate in communities and age groups where the take-up rate is low. Health minister Hugo de Jonge said at last week’s press conference that targeted messages would be aimed at the under-25 age group, 76% of whom said they are willing to have the coronavirus jab. Poorer communities and ethnic minorities are also less willing to be immunised, according to surveys, and more likely to be deterred because they...