Victoria puts faith in hotels as âloopholeâ route from India reopens
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The Victorian government says its hotel quarantine program is ready to receive travellers returning from coronavirus-ravaged India as the first chartered repatriation flight prepares to land in Darwin on Saturday.
About 900 Australians in India who have been identified as vulnerable will be prioritised for the repatriation flights with one flight leaving every seven to nine days until the end of June, as agreed at national cabinet last week.
The first repatriation flight was due to return from New Delhi, India to Australia on Saturday.
Vaccine production hassles mean CSL is still falling well short of producing the promised one million doses a week of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine. Just 707,000 doses of the vaccine were due to be delivered to the nation s medicines watchdog for safety checks this week - 30 per cent less than the government was hoping for. Health Department chief Professor Brendan Murphy forecast earlier this year the company would be supplying a million doses a week of the vaccine from the end of March. If things had gone to plan we should have seen over 4.7 million doses delivered by now when the 700,000 doses that arrived from overseas are added.
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