Our million doses Pfizer The jab will be sent from the UK to Australia As part of the Covid-19 vaccine deal.
Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison The move was announced at a press conference Canberra Just a few days after his country received 500,000 Pfizer medicines from Singapore that were about to expire.
“The plane is on the tarmac now. It will leave tomorrow,” Mr. Morrison said.
“These doses will appear in the next few weeks, which will double our Pfizer dose in September.
“This means that from Downing Street to Australia, we will double Pfizer’s dose in Australia this month.”
According to data from the Australian Immunization Registry, Australia is one of the countries with the slowest vaccine promotion among wealthy countries, with only 36.4% of the population over 16 vaccinated
The two most populous states in the country, Victoria Both New South Wales and New South Wales are under lockdown and are counting on residents to be vaccinated to contain the outbreak of the Delta variant that began in Sydney in mid-June.
The deal was reached a few hours after Boris Johnson stated that the UK needed to “speed up” the vaccination of children between 16 and 17 years of age, despite the “strong” vaccination rate for this age group.
