Western Australia First State to Mandate Vaccine Boosters

A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer vaccine on the opening day of a COVID-19 mass vaccination clinic at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre in Perth, Australia on Aug. 16, 2021. AAP Image/Richard Wainwright

Western Australia (WA) has become the first jurisdiction in Australia to mandate a third COVID-19 booster shot for its workers.

The state was one of the first to implement sweeping vaccination mandates, with 75 percent of WA’s workforce—more than one million workers—needing to be double dosed by February next year.