Some regional centres in Queensland are lagging well behind the rest of the state for COVID-19 vaccination rates, as the government renewed a plea for people to get the jab.

While the south-east is nearing double-dose rates of around 80 per cent, there are some areas where the rates are well behind, ahead of the government’s plan to re-open domestic borders around December 17.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk headed to Rockhampton as part of a regional vaccination blitz.

Around 56.9 per cent of eligible Queenslanders are fully vaccinated.

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Nine News reporter Tim Arvier crossed to Scott Emerson from Mackay.

“Around the Whitsundays, the figures are pretty low up here and indeed right across regional Queensland, they are lagging well behind Queensland’s vaccination average.”

He said Cherbourg’s double dose vaccination rate was around 24 per cent, and Yarrabah around 22 per cent.

Gladstone, Rockhampton, Mackay, central Highlands were “lagging quite badly”.

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