Children aged 12 to 15 could be vaccinated in Australia late this year or early next year in a bid to battle the Delta strain of Covid-19.
Australia s drug regulator, the TGA, is currently assessing an application from Pfizer to have its jab approved in the country for that age group.
The vaccine has already been approved for children over 12 in countries such as the US, Canada, Germany, Japan, France and Italy.
A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to a minor at a vaccination centre in Santiago, Chile on June 23
Trials for children under 12 are ongoing to determine safety and dosage, with results due in a few months and a decision in the US expected in early 2022.
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Katie Hopkins dropped from Big Brother VIP after quarantine comments
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Far-right commentator Katie Hopkins has been dumped from Channel 7’s
Big Brother VIP a day after boasting about flouting infection controls while in hotel quarantine in Sydney.
Ms Hopkins told her 261,000 Instagram followers she had opened her door to guards naked and not wearing a mask to “call out” Australia’s quarantine system and lockdowns.
Katie Hopkins mocks the hotel quarantine safety rules upon her arrival in Australia.
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“What I want is the sergeant in the foyer to come up and tell me off so that I can stand there naked while he tells me off,” she said.
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Business and unions are concerned about the closure of the construction industry in NSW and the massive impact it will have on the economy.
Economists were already estimating the cost of the twin shutdowns in Australia s two major cities at $10 billion even before the NSW government tightened restrictions further on Saturday.
Such concerns came as NSW reported a further 105 new virus cases on Sunday, as well as the death of a woman in her 90s, the fourth fatality in this breakout.
The Greater Sydney lockdown at this stage is due to end on July 30.