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Brendan Murphy says CSL will reach a million COVID vaccines a week soon
The head of the Health Department has outlined some of the reasons why Australia’s local production of the AstraZeneca vaccine has not hit its original goal of a million doses a week.
Key points:
- CSL made around 830,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week of local production
- Batch release and manufacturing work flows are being improved to speed up production
- Scott Morrison says he will write to the EU to ask for millions of other doses to be exported to Australia
In September 2020, the government signed a deal for 3.8 million doses of the vaccine to be shipped from Europe, with a further 50 million doses to be made locally during 2021 by CSL.
The government says so far only 700,000 doses of the vaccine have been delivered,…
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