“As of last night,there had been 41,907 doses administered around the country. That included 13,348 Commonwealth aged care residents at 158 facilities,” Mr Hunt said on Tuesday as he announced a further 135,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine had arrived in Australia.
It follows the arrival of 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine,whichlanded in Australia on Sunday morning.
From late March,Mr Hunt said Australians can expect 1 million doses per week once the Australian-made AstraZeneca vaccines,produced by CSL in Melbourne,start being distributed.
“I am very pleased to be able to announce that over the current 10 day period,we will make almost 300,000 doses available to the states and that will be the two distributions of Pfizer and one of
AstraZeneca,” he said.
Mr Hunt said NSW would receive 86,000 vaccine doses over the next 10 days,after previously sayingthe state would be entitled to 80,000 doses. That was in addition to the 14,000 doses already received by NSW last week,the first week of the rollout.
Victoria will receive 76,000 doses,Queensland can expect 56,000,Western Australia will get 30,000 and South Australia will get 29,000.
NSW administers most vaccines
Weekly vaccination data released on Monday night shows NSW is outperforming other large states when it comes to administering the vaccine.
The state completed 10,339 vaccinations in the first week of the rollout,representing 74 per cent of doses allocated. By comparison,Victoria completed 3862 of its 12,870 allocated doses (30 per cent) and Queensland completed 2030 of its 9360 allocated doses (22 per cent).
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Only Tasmania and the ACT had completed higher percentages of their allocated doses than NSW,recording 100 per cent and 84 per cent completion rates,respectively.
People in phase 1a,including frontline health and quarantine workers,as well as aged care residents and staff,are currently eligible to receive a vaccination.
The Health Minister said it remained the federal government’s goal to complete the rollout by the end of October.
“That remains our objective and timeframe,” he said.
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