CANBERRA: The coronavirus vaccination rate for Indigenous Australians is significantly lower than the general population, government data showed.

Blair Exell, head of the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), told a senate hearing on Friday that 63 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 16 and over have had one Covid-19 vaccine dose and 50.4 percent are fully inoculated.

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