Coronavirus Victoria: No Pfizer for over 50s as Victoria braces for subcontinent virus threat brisbanetimes.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brisbanetimes.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Prioritising Pfizer over AstraZeneca to vaccinate under-50s risks harming Australia s rollout thanks to its unreliable vaccine supply, some experts say.
The government is reviewing what that decision, based on a potentially increased risk of extremely rare blood clots among younger people taking the AstraZeneca vaccine, means for the country s already delayed rollout.
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Australia can produce the AstraZeneca vaccine at CSL in Melbourne.(Getty)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he did not have an update to the rollout timeline and said, we have to take the time to assess the implications for the program . When we ve done that, we may be able to form a view. But I don t think anyone should expect that any time soon, he said last night.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accused the Labor Party of failing the COVID-19 test of national unity to support the nation s vaccination rollout program, claiming Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese only has political bones in his body.
Mr Morrison claimed Labor sought to undermine the government over its lagging vaccination timeline with just 200,000 doses administered, despite promises of four million vaccinations by the end of March. There have been many COVID-19 tests Australians have overtaken during the course of this pandemic, but there is a test for the opposition when it comes to national unity on the delivery of the vaccine program, he said.
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The last time the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee – the panel of chief health officers that has steered the country through COVID-19 – met face-to-face was almost exactly a year ago in February 2020 to hammer out a plan for dealing with the looming pandemic.
Soon, the states’ top doctors will meet in person again, most likely in Canberra, to detail the next phase: the planned six-month rollout of multiple COVID-19 vaccines and “what that will mean in terms of how we handle outbreaks”.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews.
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Certainty is something Australians crave after a year of restrictions, snap lockdowns and border closures that have varied wildly between states and haven’t always appealed to common sense.