But Mr Morrison said it would require the backing of the state premiers.
The vaccine rollout has caused tension between the states and the Commonwealth over missed targets. The federal government’s move to hold national cabinet twice a week was aimed to bring an end to the blame game, with Mr Morrison saying he wanted to “unite the nation”.
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NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard on Thursday welcomed Mr Morrison’s decision to convene national cabinet twice a week, but said so far decisions about the rollout had “largely been a one-way street, with states and territories being told that this is how it is going to work”.
“We need to settle in for the long haul because I don’t think we will be getting significant amounts of Pfizer vaccine until next year,” he said. He said Australians were among 6.8 billion people around the world lining up to get vaccinated and the federal government’s case for getting priority was not as strong as other regions including Africa, India and Indonesia. He said it was unlikely international students would return in significant numbers until the general population, including 17 million people under the age of 50, were vaccinated.
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Public health experts have warned the Australian population will not get vaccinated until the end of next year unless Pfizer vaccine supplies are boosted by September.
But Mr Morrison said it would require the backing of the state premiers.
The vaccine rollout has caused tension between the states and the Commonwealth over missed targets. The federal government’s move to hold national cabinet twice a week was aimed to bring an end to the blame game, with Mr Morrison saying he wanted to “unite the nation”.
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NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard on Thursday welcomed Mr Morrison’s decision to convene national cabinet twice a week, but said so far decisions about the rollout had “largely been a one-way street, with states and territories being told that this is how it is going to work”.
The new case involves a woman in her 40s who was vaccinated in Western Australia. The Therapeutic Goods Administration said the woman remains in hospital receiving treatment, and is in a stable condition. It comes after the first case involving a 44-year-old man from Melbourne led to an official review of the vaccine after he was taken to hospital with a blood clot after getting the AstraZeneca jab back in March. Today, an Australian man in his 80s has died in a Queensland hospital after contracting COVID-19. The man s case of the deadly virus was detected after he arrived in Australia from the Philippines, having transmitted through Papua New Guinea.
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