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Experts say that the difference between 70 and 80 per cent vaccination rates will be critical in reducing the virus, with the lower target expected to unleash more than 5000 cases a day.
However, record daily vaccination rates in NSW suggest the country could hit the upper target this year, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian expecting the state to achieve more than 350,000 jabs a week this week after a surge in demand for the AstraZeneca vaccine.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says that the state is more than a third of the way towards its target of 10 million jabs.
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Professor Mikhail Prokopenko, director of the University of Sydney complex systems research group, said his modelling under the older virus variants found “at least 82 per cent” vaccination of the population was needed to avoid major lockdowns in the future.
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