As well as the 50 million doses being produced on-shore, Australia will also import 3.8 million doses.
On Friday, AstraZeneca informed the European Commission that there would be significant shortfalls of up to 60% in the 100 million doses the European Union expected to receive in the first quarter of 2021.
Asked by Guardian Australia whether any action taken by the EU to block exports would affect Australia, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca Australia said there had been “global supply challenges”.
“AstraZeneca’s plan remains to commence delivery of its vaccine to the Australian government as soon as possible, pending approval from TGA [Therapeutic Goods Administration].”
Covid 19 coronavirus: Worldwide cases surge past 100 million
26 Jan, 2021 07:39 PM
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The world has officially surpassed 100 million cases of Covid 19, according to new official figures from John Hopkins University.
The global death toll has now surpassed 2.1 million.
A quarter of the cases have been in the United States - where the death toll has exceeded 420,000.
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Meanwhile people who get vaccinated may believe they can t spread the coronavirus and could prove to be the next super-spreaders, Harvard University public health student Rushabh Doshi has warned.
Writing on KevinMD, a platform founded by Dr Kevin Pho, Doshi noted that it was still unclear whether vaccinated people could still spread the virus.
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Health by Ally Foster and Charis Chang 27th Jan 2021 6:26 AM People who get vaccinated may believe they can t spread the coronavirus and could prove to be the next super-spreaders, Harvard University public health student Rushabh Doshi has warned. Writing on KevinMD, a platform founded by Dr Kevin Pho, Doshi noted that it was still unclear whether vaccinated people could still spread the virus. With a slower than expected vaccination rollout to the general public, people who are vaccinated and fail to understand that they can still be carriers of the virus pose an immediate threat to the unvaccinated, Doshi wrote last week.
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