Don't miss your Thursday, August 5, edition of the Illawarra Mercury for your free "Vax The Nation" poster.
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To date more than 12million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Australia.
As the national vaccine roll-out continues to expand, the Illawarra Mercury is encouraging readers to show their support for increased COVID-19 vaccination in our community.
Your free Vax The Nation poster features a striking illustration by Walkley Award-winning cartoonist David Pope, whose editorial cartoons appear in the Illawarra Mercury and other newspapers published by Australian Community Media.
In June, ACM, the publisher of this masthead, launched its national Vax The Nation campaign on the front pages of its 14 daily newspapers serving the national capital and key regional population centres across NSW, Victoria and Tasmania.
Thursday's gloss poster, printed with the support of the Australian government's Department of Health, urges Australians to arm themselves by booking their COVID-19 vaccination as soon as possible.
The Illawarra Mercury is asking readers to show their support for a safer, stronger Illawarra community by displaying your Vax The Nation poster in the shopfront window of your business or on the noticeboard in the lunchroom at your workplace or in your front window at home.
Symbio Wildlife Park, which has been closed for more than five weeks, is among the first to display the free poster.
The family-run zoo's marketing and creative director Kevin Fallon said with COVID impacting every person, family and business, the Helensburgh wildlife park was eager to do anything it could to help return things to normal.
"The sooner we can all move forward in a positive direction the better," Mr Fallon said.
"From what the government is saying, the only way this is going to be achievable is through higher rates of vaccination, and if that's the case, everyone should be doing everything they humanly can to allow us all to start living a normal life once again."
To find out if you're eligible for the COVID-19 vaccination go to australia.gov.au.
Use the vaccine eligibility checker to see if you are eligible, when and where you can get the vaccination, and to book an appointment.
If you are aged 40 years or more you are eligible for vaccination. If you are aged 16 to 39 years you may be eligible for vaccination.
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) recommends the COVID-19 Comirnaty (Pfizer) vaccine as the preferred vaccine for those aged 16 to 59 years, but the AstraZeneca vaccine can be provided to people aged 18 to 59 years of age.
If you are not yet eligible, and aged 18 years or over, you will have the option to be notified when you are.
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