Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia has secured an additional 1 million Pfizer doses and will prioritise 530,000 for the 12 Sydney local government areas of concern.
“We have been in discussions with the Polish government now for several weeks, and we have secured an additional just over 1 million doses of Pfizer and they will start landing in Australia from tonight,” he said.
“These doses are on top of the 40 million Pfizer doses that Australia has already contracted to be delivered, and of course will be ramping up again significantly in the fourth quarter of this year.
“Now the 1 million doses – I’ve discussed this with the NSW premier yesterday – will be targeted to Australians aged 20 to 39 years of age who are identified in the Doherty modelling as the peak transmitters for COVID-19.
“530,000 of these doses will be prioritised for express delivery to the 12 city local government areas where the COVID-19 outbreak continues to grow.
“Further doses will turn up over the course of this week, and the balance of the doses will be provided to the remaining states and territories on a per capita basis, not including NSW of course, because they will have received those first 530,000 doses.”
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