Australia can expect rapid adoption of a COVID-19 vaccination when it's available, with 90 per cent of Australians surveyed saying they want to be inoculated.
Of the the 1000 Australians who took part in the survey, 88 per cent said they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if it was available.READ MOREAustralians were among the most likely to indicate they would get vaccinated for COVID-19, behind only China and Brazil .
While Australians are among the most likely to say they would get vaccinated, they are among the least likely to believe - 27 per cent - that a vaccine will be available before the end of the year, compared with the global average of 41 per cent. Ipsos Australia director David Elliott said health authorities could be optimistic that Australians would be keen to be inoculated when a vaccine was available.
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