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Sydneysiders will be given an extra supply of 50,000 Pfizer doses from the national 'emergency stockpile' to help ease the state's escalating Covid-19 outbreak.
The federal government will send the extra Pfizer vaccine doses to NSW on top of the 150,000 already sent after a plea for help from NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
The Commonwealth will send the vials from a national stockpile after other states and territories rebuffed the NSW government's plea for more vaccines on Friday.
The federal government has sent to 50,000 additional Pfizer doses to NSW to help the state grapple with the Covid-19 outbreak
The prime minister's office told AAP the extra vaccines are in addition to 150,000 Pfizer doses already sent to NSW, and are expected to arrive within a week.
The offer comes after NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said he was unaware of the extra doses being sent to NSW, declaring he had seen 'nothing in writing'.
'I can't confirm that because I don't know that,' Hazzard said during Saturday's daily Covid-19 press conference after 163 new cases were recorded.
Mr Morrison said there was 'potential to put more vaccines into NSW' after a meeting with state and territory leaders on Friday.
'But we're not going to disrupt the vaccination program around the rest of the country.'
Mr Morrison said Australia was on
