Back in lockdown and “COVID active” in our practices.This state is becoming a familiar place for our network to meet.While we await news about the easing of restrictions in regional Victoria, which will certainly make the lives of our families better, we know that this will not come without challenges to each of us as health care providers, leaders and managers in regional and rural Victoria.This lockdown shouldn’t have caught us off guard, bit it seemed to have. Were we COVID ready? And what does outbreak preparedness now mean in primary care?We thought we understood this virus fairly well, but now it seems to be transmitting in a different way. What is going on locally, what role can we play in primary care to support our local public health units to enable our community to be COVID safe?While we’ve been working to shoehorn the commonwealth vaccine rollout into routine practice, and roll with the hesitancy, the demands and now the demanding hesitancy by consumers, what other urgent priorities in vaccination must be considered? And what role will be play in primary care to address these priorities?PanelProf Eugene Athan, Clinical Director of the Barwon South West Public Health Unitto bring us an update on the Anglesea exposure site statusDr Kate Graham, GP and Clinical Editor Health Pathways and COVID Clinical Advisor Western Victoria PHNA/Prof Deb Friedman, Medical Director, Infection Prevention, Control and Response unit, Vic DH, ID physician at Barwon HealthMs Rowena Clift, CEO, West Vic PHN- PHN updateDr Callum Maggs, Infectious Diseases Physician, Clinical lead Barwon Specialist Immunisation Clinic (SIC), Barwon HealthRecorded on Thursday 3rd June, 2021Western Victoria PHN Project ECHO HubCOVID-19 ECHO TeamBianca Forrester (Facilitator)Jemma Missbach, Katrina Pilbeam, (ECHO Co-ordinators)Katrina Martin, Fiona Quigley, Workforce ManagementJayde Bueller, audio production