COVID-19 vaccines administered around Australia, thousands of frontline workers get Pfizer jab
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Thousands of frontline workers in Australia have begun receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, with politicians and health authorities describing the day as a milestone .
Key points:
More than 60,000 doses are expected to be administered by the end of the week
The initial rollout is of the Pfizer vaccine but most Australians will receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab
More than 200 million COVID-19 vaccinations have already been administered internationally
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Victoria to establish nine Pfizer vaccine distribution hubs state wide03/02/2021|5min
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley has announced Victoria will distribute the Pfizer vaccine – as part of the Commonwealth rollout program – from nine Pfizer hubs across the state’s public hospitals.
“This is a significant day in the response of the Victorian community to the pandemic and it turns a corner,” he said.
Mr Foley also revealed the state recorded another day of zero new infections, marking 28 consecutive days of zero community transmission, but warned the pandemic was far from over.
“Whilst that equates to elimination of the virus, all Australians, all Victorians know that the pandemic is real and ongoing and has a long way to go before we can claim it is over,” he said.
It could have very easily been an international incident with Australia’s great ally, the United States. An American citizen tries to illegally enter Australia, creating a biosecurity risk in a time of global pandemic that ripples all way to the door of the Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack.
After the Johnny Depp illegal puppy visitor episode a few years back, we are, of course, right to be vigilante.
Let us pray that this latest incident does not a year make, otherwise 2021 is going down the rabbit hole of surrealism.
Declared traveller (Sanjiv Nayak/Unsplash)
It began on Boxing Day in an unassuming suburb of Melbourne. A bird flew onto the property of one Kevin Celli-Bird in Officer. The bird was thought to be a racing pigeon with a leg band indicating it was from the United States. Kevin called it Joe, after President-elect Joe Biden.