Australia secures 85 million Pfizer Covid booster shots next year and another ...

Australia secures 85 million Pfizer Covid booster shots next year and another ...
Australia secures 85 million Pfizer Covid booster shots next year and another ...

Australia will get 85 million Pfizer booster shots over the next two years to make sure everyone stays protected from Covid variants.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said securing $85 million worth of jabs was another 'shot in the arm' for Australians in the vaccination program.

About 60 million doses will arrive over next year and another 25 million in 2023, in addition to the 40 million already due to arrive in Australia this year.

Delivery will begin in the first quarter of 2022 and enable booster coverage throughout the year and into 2023.

'We can go into the next year with greater confidence, the supplies will be provided for the course of the year to meet any of those booster requirements,' the prime minister told reporters in Canberra.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the acquisition of Pfizer vaccine does as booster jabs at a press conference at the Lodge in Canberra on Sunday

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the acquisition of Pfizer vaccine does as booster jabs at a press conference at the Lodge in Canberra on Sunday

Mr Morrison said that as yet, there was no definitive health advice on when booster doses should be administered. 

'This is prudent future proofing we have put in place here,' he said.

'We'll be guided by the science and evidence emerging about when second doses are necessary.'

Mr Morrison responded again to questions about his responsibility for delays in Australia's vaccination rollout, and said it would be a question 'for critics to write up in history books.'

'What matters is what we do now. We have been able to make up ground significantly. 

'When I saw we were able to do one million doses in six days, that tells me we turned this around.' 

Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten said the announcement was better late than never.

'We've got another promise,' he said. 'I don't think Australia should waste time for the promise. I'm worried about the people in Sydney right now,' he told ABC's Insiders program.

For now half the population remains in lockdown with restrictions in NSW, Victoria and South Australia - the latter two due to end on Tuesday.

But Sydney remains in crisis with 141 new cases reported on Sunday and two deaths - one woman in her 30s and another in her 70s.

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