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Covid vaccines: Scott Morrison announces two new deals but Australia ‘at end of long queue’ – The Guardian
Pfizer has already agreed to supply the US, EU and Japan with hundreds of millions of doses
Australias efforts to secure the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine candidate may be compromised by huge global demand and a lack of local manufacturing capability, experts say, as Labor warns that Australia may struggle to distribute it at the required temperatures.
On Thursday, Scott Morrison announced Australia had reached two new deals for Covid-19 vaccines, one for 10m doses with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and another with the US corporate Novavax, which would supply 40m vaccines.
That adds to the two…
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