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AstraZeneca is likely to be phased out of Australia's coronavirus vaccine rollout later in the year as more Pfizer and Moderna doses join the immunisation program.
The federal government has released the vaccine distribution projections it supplied to state and territory health authorities.
Covid-19 task force commander Lieutenant General John Frewen said the information would allow states to better plan their immunisation programs.
'This is giving the states all of the best information we can to help them plan to get all of the vaccinations we can provide to their citizens as quickly as possible,' he told reporters in Canberra.
AstraZeneca is likely to be phased out of Australia's coronavirus vaccine rollout later in the year as more Pfizer and Moderna doses join the immunisation program
The document reveals AstraZeneca will likely be phased out of the rollout later in the year with supplies subject to state and territory requests from October.
That vaccine is no longer recommended for people under 60 over extremely rare but serious blood clots which have claimed two lives from more than 3.8million doses.
'For all of
