Moderna application under consideration as company announces testing of combined shot for flu and coronavirus
Australian children aged five and under could be in line to receive a Covid-19 vaccination within a matter of weeks, the federal government has confirmed, as tests begin on a combined shot for flu and coronavirus.
“If it is approved by the TGA, that will then go to our advisory group on vaccines to consider the way in which this should be rolled out to the community, so I’d expect it to be a matter of some weeks,” Butler said in Canberra on Tuesday.Earlier he told ABC radio it would be “unthinkable” not to hold a royal commission into the nation’s pandemic response.
The company’s chief medical officer, Dr Paul Burton, said the combined shot was in the early testing stages, with trials to start later this year.Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning And Australia’s multibillion-dollar mRNA manufacturing hub will be bigger than initially expected. The first of its kind in the southern hemisphere, the facility wasFinding a location had reached its final stages and a site would be announced in a few weeks, said Moderna’s Australia general manager, Michael Azrak.
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