THOUSANDS of aged care residents at more than 240 facilities are in line to receive their first COVID-19 vaccine dose.
South-east Queensland facilities at Cleveland, Redland Bay, Thornlands, Victoria Point and North Tamborine in the Scenic Rim will be involved in administering the jab.
Aged care residents are part of the Phase 1a rollout which includes frontline health care and quarantine workers.
Gold Coast nurse Zoe Park was the first person to be given a dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Queensland at Gold Coast University Hospital.
The Health Department could not confirm when Logan, Redlands or Beaudesert residents will get the jab.
The public will start to get the jab in phase 1b, which is expected to start in April and includes one million people.
The vaccine was rolled out in Brisbane this week and then Cairns on Friday.
A Queensland Health spokeswoman said the federal government was in charge of selecting, buying and regulating the COVID-19 vaccines.
"They are also responsible for transporting vaccines to vaccination clinics, specifying priority populations for vaccination and, in Queensland, vaccinating aged care residents and workers, as well as disability care residents and workers," she said.
She said as larger supplies of AstraZeneca vaccine became available, expected from mid to late March, the vaccination program would be progressively expanded across the state.
"People living in Queensland's regional, rural and remote regions will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine at the earliest possible opportunity," she said.
When vaccinations begin for the general population, the government will also deliver the vaccine to other approved providers, including GPs and pharmacies.
Queensland Health could not say which GPs in the south-east would give the vaccine. More than 4600 have been approved to take part in the roll-out from phase 1b.
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners president Karen Price said the strong response showed GPs overwhelmingly wanted to be able to vaccinate their patients.
"We want to see every practice that wants to provide these vaccinations to be able to do so. We need to get to the point where COVID-19 vaccinations are part of usual patient care as soon as we can," Dr Price said.
"However, we appreciate that not all practices can be involved in the first stages of the rollout as supply of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine will be limited."
Meanwhile, the Queensland premier has stopped short of calling for the aged care rollout to be suspended after two bungled coronavirus vaccinations in a Brisbane facility.
Investigations are under way after the only two residents to receive shots at Brisbane's Holy Spirit Nursing Home on Tuesday were given four times the correct dosage of the Pfizer vaccine.
The pair - an 88-year-old man in hospital and a 94-year-old woman who remains at the home - have not shown any adverse reactions.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt revealed the doctor who administered the vaccine had not been properly trained.
