Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed a major Pfizer win, telling Australians 500,000 doses will arrive within the week.
He said the extra doses have been secured in a new “swap deal” with Singapore, meaning Australians will receive Pfizer vaccines set to shortly expire.
The vaccines will roll out across the nation and will be shared equally among all states and territories, based on population.
The agreement also stated the Federal Government will send half a million Pfizer vaccines to Singapore in December, when Australia is expected to have ample leftovers.
“That comes on top of the some 4.5 million that we already have planned for September and the 1 million Moderna doses and the many other millions of doses available from our AstraZeneca production to ensure we can continue on in September with the strong surge that we had over August,” he said.
“It’s a dose swap deal which simply means we’re taking the 500,000 they have now, so we can put that into our distribution this month coming in September and we will provide them with 500,000 in December.
“That means there are 500,000 doses extra that will happen in September that otherwise would have had to wait for several months from now accelerating our vaccination program at this critical time as we walk towards those 70 per cent and 80 per cent targets.”
