With COVID-19 in circulation, it’s more important than ever to get your influenza (flu) vaccination this year.
All Yarra residents are eligible for our annual flu vaccination, which protects against four strains of the influenza virus. It’s only $15 and the best way to avoid getting the flu or a serious combined illness.
While the flu vaccine does not protect against COVID-19 (there is no COVID-19 vaccine currently available), it helps protect you, your family and other people who are at risk of becoming seriously ill.
It also ensures our emergency departments and hospital beds are available for those who need it most.
Keeping you safe
We’ve made extra precautions to keep you safe and healthy when visiting our immunisation sessions.
- Please stay home if you (or anyone in your family) are:
- feeling unwell (especially with a fever, sore throat or cough)
- have been a contact with someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19
- have returned from overseas within the last 14 days.
- Families can attend the clinic together, but only one parent per child will be called up to the vaccination area.
- If waiting times are longer than 15 minutes, we’ll give you a time to return.
Free flu immunisations
We also offer free flu vaccinations for:
• children aged six months to four years
• anyone aged five years and over who has a medical condition that increases their risk of complications from the flu
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from six months of age
• pregnant women
• people aged 65 years and older.
Corporate immunisation program
If you’re a business or organisation in Yarra, you can also contact us about our corporate flu immunisation program.
Stick to the schedule
Our regular immunisation service continues with extra precautions in place. We also offer some vaccines that aren’t covered under the ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ or School Immunisation Program.
These include:
- Chicken pox
- Boostrix (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis or whooping cough)
- Hepatitis B
- MMR (measles, mumps, rubella)
- MenACWY.
Upcoming immunisation sessions
Some locations for our immunisation sessions have changed.
Fitzroy Town Hall
1pm to 3pm
- Tuesday 5 May
- Tuesday 2 June
North Richmond Community Health Centre
1pm to 2pm
- Wednesday 6 May
- Wednesday 3 June
Collingwood Town Hall
9:30am to 11:30am
- Wednesday 13 May
- Wednesday 10 June
Edinburgh Gardens Community Room
1pm to 3pm
- Tuesday 19 May
- Tuesday 16 June
Studio One
9:30am to 11:30am
- Wednesday 20 May
- Wednesday 17 June
Collingwood Town Hall
- Monday 25 May
- Monday 22 June
