Australia to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination drive as more doses arrive

📆 2/23/2021 1:05 AM
📰 Reuters

⏱ Reading Time:
19 sec. here
2 min. at publisher
📊 Quality Score:
News: 11%
Publisher: 97%

United States Headlines News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

Australia will ramp up its COVID-19 immunisation drive with more shots to be rolled out from next week, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Tuesday, after a second shipment of the vaccine reached the country overnight.

About 166,000 doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and Germany’s BioNtech arrived late Monday, authorities said, as the country entered the second day of a nationwide inoculation programme.

Australia on Monday began mass COVID-19 vaccinations for its 25 million people after the arrival last week of a first batch of more than 142,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine. Border closures and speedy contact tracing have helped Australia keep its COVID-19 numbers relatively low, with an easing of restrictions putting the economy on a recovery track.

Write Comment

Which makes New Zealand's delayed approach even more trivial...........................................

How are the side effects?

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.