The Health Minister defends the federal government's decision to give a greater share of Pfizer vaccine doses to NSW, as other states call for the imbalance to be made up.
, while leaving other states in an "egg-and-spoon race".
"As we've had outbreaks, we've prioritised those areas to save lives," Mr Hunt said. "In particular, we started by prioritising Victoria when there was the Victorian outbreak.""I hope no-one would begrudge that focus." "I signed up to a national plan to vaccinate our nation, not a national plan to vaccinate Sydney," he said.
"NSW received a million extra doses against their population share, while we've received significantly less than WA's share," Mr McGowan wrote in a social media post.
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