Scott Morrison has made an urgent appeal to the US for excess Pfizer doses as New South Wales' lockdown hopes are dampened by top epidemiologist.
The Government has made a desperate plea for access to the Biden administration's estimated 26million Pfizer doses nearing expiry as they sit unused in warehouses.
Australia's previous attempts to retrieve the excess doses have so far been unsuccessful.
However leading Republicans are pushing for Biden to show leniency saying Australia should be prioritised for the Vaccines.
While Sydneysiders remain hopeful for an end to one the nation's strictest lockdowns, Melbourne epidemiologist Nancy Baxter seemed less optimistic labelling the end of August date a 'fantasy'.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is appealing to the Biden administration for access to 26million Pfizer doses nearing expiration date
The excess Pfizer doses are sitting a warehouse waiting to expire with Republican leaders pushing for the U.S. to send over vaccines to Australia
On Sunday the New York Times reported the up to one million Pfizer vaccines went to waste in the U.S.
'The United States has vaccine doses set to expire at the same time our Australian mates need extra doses,' Mike Gallagher, Republican co-chairman of the Friends of Australia congressional caucus said.
'The Biden administration should be doing everything in its power to get these doses to Australia.'
Since December last year approximately one million vaccines went to waste in the U.S., the New York Times reported on Sunday.
The access to more vaccines has become more dire as more Australian states plunge into lockdown ravaged by the highly infectious Covid-19 Delta Variant.
After a record high in daily Covid-19 cases, Dr Baxter warned Greater Sydney's future looked grim, anticipating state case numbers were yet to reach its peak.
Appearing on The Project Dr Baxter said: 'You really need something to change the equation to kind of really drive those numbers down, or it's going to be an extremely long haul.'
Unsure of when positive cases will Dr Baxter said if something needed to change the to
