The New South Wales (NSW) health system could lose about one in ten staff, who have not received a COVID-19 jab, as the vaccination deadline inches closer. NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant announced yesterday that 88 percent of the state’s health staff had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Sept. 14. This is a 4 percent increase since Sept. 2, and Chant is pushing for the remaining workforce to get vaccinated. Under public health orders, all healthcare workers must receive their first dose by Sept. 30 and second dose by Nov. 30, 2021; otherwise, they will be stood down. “I am really confident that healthcare workers will put the interests of their patients and the interests of their own health [first], and I’m convinced we will achieve very high vaccine coverage,” Chant said. “Our health staff are seeing the consequences day in, day out, of …