Australiaâs vaccine options: How they compare Weâve got potent weapons against the pandemic virus but weâre not acting fast enough to deploy them.
Health by Sue Dunlevy
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Subscriber only We won the race to develop vaccines against Covid-19 but our failure to get enough of them into human arms has given the virus time to mutate fast enough to outrun them. Even before scientists have produced the promised booster vaccine doses to cover the UK, South African and Brazilian variants of the virus several new super infectious Indian types have emerged. If you ve had just one dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca jab, a Public Health England study shows there is only a one in three chance it will protect you from an Indian variant like the one sweeping Melbourne.
Acting Premier James Merlino said all three cases are primary close contacts who had already been identified, and eased restrictions for regional Victoria will go ahead.