Atagi will brief the health minister, Mark Butler, on Thursday after agreeing to recommend the expansion of Australia’s Covid vaccine program
The lag in people taking up their third booster shot is thought to be one of the main contributing reasons to what is shaping up asPeople who have had two vaccines or fewer are six times more likely to need hospitalisation if infected, compared to people who have had three doses., two of the most infectious strains yet, is one of the drivers behind the expanded booster program.
“I’m very confident that, if there’s an expansion of the fourth doses by Atagi over the next couple of days, we’ve got more than enough vaccine in the warehouses and more than enough capacity in our pharmacies in our GP surgeries to deliver that as soon as people want it,” he said. More than five million Australians did not take up the third booster dose of the vaccine, which was made available six months after their second vaccine shot was administered.
While Australia is “living with the virus”, hospital admissions have spiked as infection numbers continue to rise.
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