Australians will be able to travel freely again, enjoy a drink in pubs and live without fear of snap lockdowns by Melbourne Cup Day, new data analysis has claimed.
A detailed assessment of the national vaccine rollout found by November 2 the Australian government will have sourced enough jabs to inoculate 80 per cent of the population.
Data analyst Kenneth Tsang calculated 20 million more doses were needed to vaccinate four-fifths of those aged between 16 and 59 and achieve herd immunity.
The claim comes despite Australia's bungled vaccination program so far only fully immunising 7.1 per cent of the eligible population against the deadly virus.
Mr Tsang, who founded the exposure site tracking website Covid-19 Near Me, based his estimate on the government's COVID Vaccination Allocations Horizons vaccine supply document.
'Accounting for the 4 million doses already administered to this age group, 20 million doses are required to vaccinate 80 per cent of the 16-59 population,' he said.
Australia will have sourced enough jabs to inoculate 80 per cent of the population and achieve herd immunity by November 2, new analysis has claimed. Pictured is a queue at Sydney's Olympic Park mass vaccination hub on Wednesday
Australia's bungled vaccination program has so far immunised only 7.1 per cent of the eligible population. Pictured is a graph showing Australia's vaccination rate relative to other countries around the world on June 22 when that figure was 4.68 per cent
'From the Horizons document, we can estimate that 20 million doses will arrive the week commencing November 1, 2021.'
He based his date estimate on the fact 66 per cent of Australians over the age of 60 had already received one dose of the vaccine, News Corp reported.
The Horizon document sets out targets for vaccine supply across the states and territories until the end of the year as the AstraZeneca vaccine - which is linked to rare blood clotting incidents - is phased out in favour of the Pfizer and Moderna jabs.
Between October and December 2021, the document says 1.7 million to 2.3 million doses of Pfizer and 430,000 to 615,000 will be
