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Pfizer has confirmed it will 'ramp up' its delivery of vaccines to Australia as Sydney's outbreak grows to 439 cases.
The company has agreed to deliver at least a million vaccines a week from July 19, meaning more than 4.5million jabs will arrive in August.
Previously only three million doses were expected in August and 4.5million were due in September.
Shoppers make a purchase at a local fish market along Chapel Road in Bankstown in western Sydney as lockdown entered its fourteenth day
The total number delivered to Australia in 2021 will remain at 40 million, as agreed in April. Pfizer is simply sending the shipments earlier.
The company said in a statement: 'Pfizer is committed to delivering 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to Australia over 2021.
'The total number of 40 million doses we are contracted to deliver to Australia over 2021 has not changed. We continue to work closely with the Government to support the ramp up of their rollout program.
'While the details of our agreement with the Government are confidential, we can confirm that deliveries to Australia remain on track, and we continue to update our weekly delivery schedule in line with the ramp up.
'We expect the remainder of the 40 million doses to be delivered by the end of 2021'.
A spokesperson for the Prime Minister told Daily Mail Australia: 'From 19 July, Australia's Pfizer supply now plans to increase to approximately 1million doses per week.
'This is compared to an
