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Brendan Murphy ‘pretty confident’ most Australians will get at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine by October
Nearly 160,000 people have now had a COVID-19 vaccination, including the Prime Minister who received his second Pfizer dose on Sunday.
Key points:
- Prime Minister says it has been a “herculean effort” to get vaccines to Australia
- He has announced an additional $1.1b for the nation’s COVID-19 response
- The government has set up a website in the hope of stopping misinformation about the vaccine
However, the figure is well below what the federal government had hoped to achieve, with a target of inoculating 4 million people initially set for early April.
Scott Morrison has blamed international supply issues but is hopeful vaccination rates will ramp up in the coming weeks.
“The critical factor in controlling the pace of the vaccination program is…
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