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NT’s delayed AstraZeneca vaccines were never ordered, federal government says
The coronavirus vaccine rollout has been delayed in the Northern Territory, with the federal government saying the NT has not sent it an order for a shipment of AstraZeneca doses, which was expected to have arrived by now.
Key points:
- The NT was expecting its first shipment of AstraZeneca doses this week
- But the shipment was yet to arrive on Sunday afternoon
- The federal government says that is because the NT failed to order it
Chief Minister Michael Gunner had previously said the first shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine — 1,440 doses — would arrive in the NT this week.
He said delivery would begin immediately before a further 4,000 doses arrived in the following weeks.
But on Sunday afternoon a spokeswoman for NT Health Minister Natasha…
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