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A million doses hit the road as first Aussie-made vaccine approved
Wednesday March 24, 2021
Australians can soon start being inoculated against COVID-19 using an Australian-made vaccine.
Government authorities hope the scaling up of vaccine production will put the rollout back on track.
The nation’s medicine regulator overnight approved more than 830,000 doses of Melbourne-made AstraZeneca vaccine, confirming they are of the same quality as those made overseas.
“Testing of the vaccine batches in our Canberra laboratories plus review of extensive manufacturing documentation, has ensured that the locally-manufactured vaccine has exactly the…
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