MEANDER VALLEY aged care facilities are following the Tasmanian trend of encountering few hiccups in vaccinating their residents.

While some facilities in other states are waiting for federally distributed vaccines, all residents of Grenoch and Kanangra aged care homes in Deloraine who wanted them were vaccinated in mid-April.

Respect chief operating officer, Brett Menzies said residents of Tyler Village in Prospect have also had their vaccinations.

‘We have not had issues with shortages across our Tasmanian sites’, Mr Menzies said. ‘There was the odd postponement related to other issues but on the whole the roll out was done relatively effectively.’

CEO of Aged Care Deloraine, Nadine Ozols, said a vaccination team arrived on site and the roll out went smoothly.

‘Vaccination was an individual choice. Every resident had the opportunity to access a vaccine’, she said.

‘They had the first dose of the Pfizer vaccination and will be vaccinated with the second dose in a few weeks.’