Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 15.27 EST Ructions at Buckingham Palace fuel republican movements, Australia’s vaccine timeline is disputed, and Congress has passed a record emergency package. Those are the lead stories, this Thursday 11 March. The Australian Medical Association has contradicted the federal government’s claims that its Covid-19 vaccination targets are “on track”, suggesting that the “very ambitious” goal of having all Australians vaccinated by October should be revised until the end of the year. Only 106,000 of the 1.4m doses of vaccine set aside for phase 1A have been administered since 21 February, with Labor suggesting double that number would need to be administered, daily, to reach the stated target. AMA president, Omar Khorshid, confirmed that a shortage of vaccine was the major factor for rollout delays, and while Australia would be in “less of a hurry” than nations like the US or UK, a slower vaccination timeline would see Australia’s international borders remaining closed for longer. Meanwhile, vaccine supply remains a hot topic in Europe, with the EU and UK embroiled in a war of words after 9m doses left the continent bound for the breakaway member despite regional shortfalls.