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Once that happens, 1.2 million doses will be sent from overseas and rolled out within the first six weeks of the program.Â
Another 50 million are getting made here in Australia in Melbourne. Those should be available from late March.
CSIRO Health Director Rob Grenfell said the arrival of the doses were coming at an ideal time for Australia. You can t actually rush these things, Dr Grenfell told Today.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the CSL vaccine manufacturing facility.(Getty) We have done something we have never done before and developed effective vaccines within a year. That s been remarkable. The other part is that our TGA has been doing the job it is designed for, to make sure that they work and all Australians will be safe to get this, and then the third part is rolling these vaccines across to the whole population has never been done before, so the logistics of building this up has given us the chance to get to this strong stage, and hopefu
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