Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has admitted that his country will fall well short of its initial target of vaccinating 4 million people against COVID-19 by the end of March. SYDNEY: Australia will fall well short of its initial COVID-19 vaccination target, Prime Minister Scott Morrison admitted on Wednesday , claiming that European export restrictions were partly to blame.
"It's not a race," he said, accusing critics of"wanting to play politics with vaccine and distribution". "Because if it was, we would have been lapped multiple times and be battling it out for 75th place," he tweeted.Early in the pandemic, Morrison had boasted that Australia would be"at the front of the queue" for vaccines after a slew of deals with pharmaceutical firms AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Novavax.On Wednesday, Morrison indicated that the target had changed, saying"we are on track for our first dose for everyone by the end of October".
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