Health
UK warning: COVID-19 complacency in winter will ‘bite you on the backside’ – The Sydney Morning Herald
Victoria’s vaccination program is running well below capacity due to a shortage of AstraZeneca doses and public hesitancy about the locally manufactured vaccine….
Professor Benjamin Cowie is overseeing Victorias COVID-19 vaccine roll-out.Credit: Supplied
A spokeswoman for CSL, the Melbourne-based manufacturer of AstraZeneca, said that as of Friday, 5.5 million doses of locally produced vaccine had been released for distribution.
This followed a four-week quality control process, including batch testing by the TGA.
Under the Commonwealths vaccination program, about 80 per cent of all AstraZeneca doses are supplied directly to GPs, rather than state governments.
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