Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is likely to begin its Australian rollout sooner than expected, but Scott Morrison has warned COVID-safe practices will remain.
Australians are expected to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from mid to late February, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. Mr Morrison said high-priority groups, including healthcare and quarantine workers among others, would receive the treatment first. He hoped the initial phase would start with about 80,000 inoculations a week. However, Mr Morrison said this timeline with depend on a number of factors including final approval from the Therapeutic Good Administation, and delivery of the vaccine from the supplier. He said the Pfizer vaccine would only be delivered and released once TGA approval was given, which he anticipated would occur by the end of January.
A Navy-inspired restaurant has been revealed as a so-called missing link between the Croydon and Wollongong coronavirus clusters.
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said none of the three new cases were linked to the Avalon cluster on Sydney s Northern Beaches.
The Swallowed Anchor.(Google Maps)
Instead, Dr Chant said investigations found a case from the Croydon cluster and a case from the Wollongong cluster both visited the Swallowed Anchor restaurant in Wollongong on the 19 December. There may have been a transmission event at that venue, she said. This was before either the case from Croydon cluster or the case from Wollongong had their infection, and what we re looking at is whether they were both infected at that time and date, so this is a triangulation piece.
Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is likely to begin its Australian rollout sooner than expected, but Scott Morrison has warned COVID-safe practices will remain.
Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is likely to begin its Australian rollout sooner than expected, but Scott Morrison has warned COVID-safe practices will remain.