Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses wrongly delivered to Perth instead of Adelaide, delaying SA rollout

A shipment of Pfizer vaccine doses destined for South Australia has been wrongly delivered to Western Australia, causing delays to the state’s rollout. 

The ABC understands aged care facilities involved in the phase 1A rollout were told by the federal Department of Health that COVID–19 immunisations would not be happening today as scheduled.

Impacted care homes were originally told the delay was the result of a “logistics issue”.

The ABC has been told the issue that caused the setback was that a shipment bound for Adelaide was incorrectly delivered to Perth.

It is not clear how many vaccines were included in the shipment, but some were expected to be second-round doses for aged care residents.

Transport and logistics company DHL holds…