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Children as young as five will start getting Covid-19 jabs by late January once Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines are approved.
Australia's Covid vaccine coordinator Lieutenant-General John Frewen said the rollout could begin in early January, but will take a few weeks to ramp up.
Pfizer and Moderna gained provisional determinations for child vaccines - Moderna for six to 11-year-olds and Pfizer for kids as young as five.
Both need to be fully approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, then given the green light by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation.
Australia's Covid-19 Taskforce Commander Lieutenant-General John Frewen has revealed children as young as five could begin getting Covid-19 jabs by January (stock image)
Pfizer's vaccine has 10 micrograms in each shot compared to the 30 micrograms given to those aged 12 and over.
Infants could also start getting jabs just weeks later with trials underway for vaccines to be used in children aged six months to five and 800,000 doses ordered for them.
The results are due early next year and infants aged zero to four are only likely to have one shot if vaccinations are approved.
Lieutenant-General Frewen said Australia ordered more than five
