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CANBERRA,
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has detailed his plan for all Australians to receive coronavirus vaccines by October. In his first speech at the National Press Club in 2021, Morrison said on Monday that the vaccine rollout will be one of the biggest logistical challenges in Australian history.
Under the rollout plan he said that every Australian will be offered the opportunity to be vaccinated by October. "We strongly encourage all Australians to get vaccinated," he said in the speech in Canberra. To help achieve the goal Morrison announced 1.9 billion Australian dollars (1.4 billion U.S. dollars) in funding as the new support for the vaccine rollout. The Australian Medical Association (AMA), Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and logistics companies DHL and Linfox have been enlisted for the vaccine rollout.
Besides, Australia has secured 53.8 million doses of the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, 50 million of which will be manufactured locally by biotechnology company CSL. Another 51 million doses from Novavax will be made available later in 2021 pending clinical trials. In addition to detailing the vaccine rollout, the PM also used the speech to again rule out extending coronavirus economic stimulus measures, saying the government was focused on economic recovery after record spending in 2020.
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