MILDURA'S tourism chief has called for an urgent ramping up of the region's slow vaccination rollout to help prevent more crippling lockdowns for hundreds of embattled local businesses.

Brett Millington, chief executive of Mildura Regional Development, is one of nearly 1800 people on the waiting list to get the Pfizer vaccine at the Sunraysia Community Health Services (SCHS) sub-hub.

He has now ...