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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a $21 million package to support residents facing barriers to getting vaccinated.

"Whether that be people living with a disability, youth that are at risk, seniors, culturally diverse and multifaith different communities, social housing residents and, of course … victims and survivors of family violence,” Mr Andrews said at a media conference on Tuesday.

He said the funding will help to book appointments, promote existing transport options or arrange alternatives where needed, or offer respite or childcare in suburbs with low vaccine uptake.

“As you’ve seen, we’ve taken this program right into local communities, with pop-ups and micro pop-ups - literally neighbourhood vaccination activity, end-of-your-street vaccination activity.”

He said this is one of the reasons some local government areas of “significant” concern have gone from 50 per cent first dose coverage to over 90 per cent “in just a matter of weeks”.