The wait for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will be fast-tracked from six months to five, making millions of Australians eligible for their third shot immediately vaccine covid19 omicron
Waiting times for COVID-19 vaccine boosters will be cut from six months to five under plans to be unveiled by the federal government on Sunday.
He added that more than 670,000 Australians had already received booster shots. More than 40 million doses have been delivered in Australia to date, with 89 per cent of Australians aged 16 and over having received two shots. ”At the moment, if you had your two doses, you’re fully vaccinated, you’re fully free to do all these various things, including travel,” he said.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg signalled the two-week pause on reopening Australia’s borders would likely end as planned on December 15, and urged the states to stay the course and not return to lockdowns, even as Omicron takes hold in Australia. “Obviously there’s quite a lot changing at the moment with Omicron, so we just need to see where all that lands before we say too much more,” Professor Cheng cautioned., yet to be peer reviewed, involving 581 symptomatic Omicron cases indicates two doses of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine are insufficient to provide adequate protection against infection from or mild disease caused by Omicron.
“The issue we are seeing is pharmacies and general practices starting to drop out of the program as they can’t cover their costs,” he said.
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