Australia has used less than a quarter of the hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses it bought. What will happen to the rest?
Australia has donated more than 40 million doses within the Indo-Pacific, either from its own stockpile or procured through UNICEF.It is largely because by the time Novavax was approved for use and available to be rolled out, more than 95 per cent of Australians aged 16 and over were fully vaccinated.
It was always made clear that there had to be contingencies in place in case certain vaccines did not work out. Australian Global Health Alliance chair Brendan Crabb said in the early months of the pandemic the government needed a range of vaccines."In the emergency of a pandemic, it makes sense to have given ourselves a lot of options.
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