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Australia tries to inoculate against coronavirus losses, as COVID-19 vaccine doses go to waste overseas By political reporter Anna Henderson
Evidence of coronavirus vaccine wastage overseas has prompted Australian authorities to roll out mandatory training in how to properly administer the jab.
The Federal Government has partnered with the Australian College of Nursing to develop the tutorials for the Pfizer inoculation.
Some health workers overseas have gone to great lengths to avoid the doses becoming spoiled.
One medical team in Oregon was stuck in a blizzard while transporting vials, which were due to expire within hours. They went out in the snow with their remaining supplies to offer the jab through the car windows of stranded motorists.
Australia s borders could open sooner if coronavirus vaccines prevent transmission, Scott Morrison and Brendan Murphy say
By political reporter Stephanie Dalzell and wires
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The Prime Minister says he cannot put a timeframe on the reopening of Australia s borders.
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International borders could open sooner than expected if Australia s COVID-19 vaccines prove effective at preventing transmission, according to Federal Health Department boss Brendan Murphy and Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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Health authorities do not yet know how effective vaccines are in preventing the virus spreading from one person to another
A deal to fly in foreign workers to pick fruit in Victoria has been slammed as too little and too late by the federal government.
The interstate agreement means 1,500 Pacific Islands workers will fly in to Tasmania to undergo taxpayer-funded quarantine before they go onto Victoria to work.
The state s fruit-picking industry had been hit hard by Australia s border closure during the coronavirus pandemic - with an estimated $38million worth of produce already lost because of the strict travel restrictions.
Under the deal between Victoria and Tasmania, taxpayers will subsidise the quarantine of the foreign national workers in the first six months of 2021.