Coronavirus Australia live news: Pharmacy students want to help deliver the COVID-19 vaccine

Pharmacy students want to be able to administer COVID-19 vaccines

Pharmacy students and interns want to be allowed to administer vaccines ahead of the planned rollout of a coronavirus vaccine across Australia next year. 

Pharmacy students and interns are allowed to deliver injections – with supervision – in Queensland, but are stopped from doing so in the Northern Territory, Victoria and South Australia.

The Pharmacy Student Association has written to those governments to try and get the rules changed. 

Association president, Ethan Kreutzer, said students can play an important role in helping to get Australians vaccinated in 20-21. 

“Pharmacy students are already administering the vaccines, they’re administrating them in America as we…