“This week will be our biggest week 1.1 million doses will be distributed to 2500 locations across the country,” he said.Īustralia’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly encouraged all eligible Australians to get vaccinated. Last week the federal government distributed more than 920,000 doses of vaccines across the country, and this week will be even bigger.
“There are approximately 320,000 doses of vaccine available in state hubs, and another 325,000 doses of vaccine available across the primary care network in Victoria,” he said. The state has more than 640,000 doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines available, Vaccine Operations Centre boss Commodore Eric Young said. More than 327,000 doses were administered through state and Commonwealth clinics in Victoria, with 59 per cent of people aged over 70 and 43 per cent aged over 50 having now received at least one dose of a vaccine. More than one-third of the record 832,000 vaccines administered across the country last week were given in Victoria. “The states do not need to keep contingency,” he said. Professor Kelly said the federal government has always kept second dose supplies. Based on that there’s no evidence to suggest that they’re holding vaccine in reserve.” “We had seen over the last couple of weeks, utilisation, particularly in Victoria, rise dramatically. “There’s approximately 4400 sites across the country, there’s a raft of different reasons why doses may or may not be administered in each of those sites,” the Commodore said. Vaccine Operations Centre boss Commodore Eric Young said there was no evidence to suggest that the states are stockpiling anything.
Western Australia has used 76 per cent, while NSW has used 72 per cent.
Victoria and Tasmania were next, at 93 per cent, while Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory were using the least, at 72,70 and 65 per cent respectively. We’ll see you for more tomorrow morning.Īcross the country states and territories were using about 84 per cent of their dose allocation.The ACT has used all its allocation so far. Mr Morrison said returning to in-person school classes should be a particular priority. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said he is “hopeful” the Victorian lockdown will be lifted soon, comparing restrictions to those used in NSW over summer where lockdown rules focused on certain affected areas.This is in response to the federal government’s decision to provide Victoria with an additional 100,000 Pfizer doses and
VICTORIA 2 STOCKPILE GONE FULL
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton gave a strong indication that the return to more normal life from lockdown would be gradual saying: “It is certainly not a snap back to large gatherings and a full MCG”.Victoria recorded another nine fresh cases up till midnight on Sunday on top of the two cases in the Arcare rest home in Melbourne’s west which were announced over the weekend.Here’s a summary of the main news for the day:
VICTORIA 2 STOCKPILE GONE FREE
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