The head of the Northern Territory's vaccine rollout has confirmed booster shots will be available for eligible Territorians from Monday next week.
The rollout comes after the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) last week recommended Pfizer booster vaccines be made available for adults in the general population.
The shots will be available at government-run vaccination clinics, GPs pharmacies or Aboriginal community-controlled centres.
Dr Bhavini Patel said the first cohorts of people eligible for the booster will be those who were prioritised at the start of the vaccine rollout, such as health workers, quarantine workers and other high-risk staff.
"[High risk workers] will become eligible first because they were vaccinated first," she said.
"Then eligibility will flow over the next six months as peoples' six months anniversaries come up."
ATAGI has not yet recommended booster shots for people under the age of 18.
Professor Patel said NT Health was updating its website to allow online bookings before the program starts on Monday.
It comes as the NT government this week missed its target of reaching 80 per cent double-dosed vaccine coverage in early November.
According to NT data, 73 per cent of Territorians are now fully vaccinated.
Federal government figures, which the NT government disputes, put the Territory-wide double-dose rate at 64.3 per cent.
The lowest rates reflected in the federal data are in the Barkly region, where only 32.5 per cent of people are fully vaccinated, and in the Daly-Tiwi-West Arnhem region, where 36.2 per cent are fully vaccinated.
Dr Patel said NT Health was increasing efforts to address pockets of hesitancy in some remote areas, including by now allowing vaccination staff to move door-to-door within communities offering the vaccine.
She also said the government had employed local "COVID vaccine champions" in some areas.
"[They are] recognised leaders in the community to sit down and have a yarn and really understand what the barriers are and then [we're] working with the community as a whole to address those things people are worried about," she said.
The NT government's wide-ranging COVID-19 vaccine mandate comes into effect on November 12, when public-facing workers in all industries are required to have had at least their first jab.
