The state government remains yet to provide further details to allied health and dental professionals after Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed he was expanding the jab workforce to help step up the vaccine roll-out.

But a potential model for interested allied health workers could be found in New South Wales, where peers have had the chance to become involved in government vaccination hubs and general practice or pharmacies during the latest Sydney outbreak.

The Courier understands those who sign up to join the jab front were trained and employed by NSW Health to join government vaccination sites, not to deliver jabs in private practice.

Lake Health Group senior physiotherapist Michael Pierce still welcomed the idea, pending further detail from the Victorian government, particularly as restrictions remained.

"For us, our capacity has dropped, we've lost a bit of work, due to the kind of work we do and different definitions for essential services," Mr Pierce said. "We have worked and collaborated with staff and have enough clients to keep the business open.

"There could be the option to condense hours and let staff work in vaccines, especially if [restrictions] continue another few weeks or months."

Lake Health Group, like most allied health in Ballarat, will not treat anyone in the clinic who has been to Melbourne in the 14 days previously; or, if they had, they needed a negative COVID test.

Mr Pierce said this was vital to the health and safety of staff, including students on placement, in the clinic.

Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley on Monday said the state had passed a 60 per cent vaccination rate for those aged 16-plus with at least one dose.

Bookings for a vaccination blitz of final year secondary school students opened on Monday, with first jabs in state centres from Tuesday and year 11s studying a year 12 subject to join the blitz from Wednesday.

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Federal government data for vaccinations by region are released each Tuesday and last week, with numbers broken into local government areas for the first time, City of Ballarat had a first-dose rate of 58.9 per cent. This was trailing Greater Bendigo and Greater Geelong.

Minister Foley said this had become a "pandemic of the unvaccinated".

"This current outbreak is targeting the unvaccinated because that's where the virus will go," he said.

"Our best way in which to protect ourselves, our family, our community and to get to the other side of this is to get vaccinated and, therefore, protect yourself, perhaps even more importantly do your bit to protect our public health system and make sure that any wave of the unvaccinated protects our public health system."

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