Torres Strait Islanders Fight COVID-19 Misinformation 🌏

As Queenslanders prepare themselves for more open borders and the subsequent spread of COVID-19, many people living in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities in the state's remote far north are paralysed with fear. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://ab.co/3oDAhP5

People in the communities are equally as afraid of vaccination as they are of losing family members to a distant and invisible disease.

The Torres Strait was the first region in Australia to be offered the COVID-19 vaccine — a deliberate move by health authorities to fortify the region against the threat posed by neighbouring Papua New Guinea.

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