CANBERRA, Aug 31 — Australia will receive 500,000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine from Singapore this week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said today, after Canberra agreed a swap deal in a bid to curtail surging coronavirus infections. The agreement, which will see Australia return the same...
CANBERRA, Aug 31 — Australia will receive 500,000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine from Singapore this week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said today, after Canberra agreed a swap deal in a bid to curtail surging coronavirus infections.
While Australia had managed to successfully contain the coronavirus with a system of strict lockdowns and quarantine, a slow vaccination rollout has made the country vulnerable to the highly infectious Delta variant. Canberra has been in lockdown for three weeks after a spate of cases believed to have spread from New South Wales, the epicentre of Australia’s Covid-19 outbreak.
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