Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. As I said earlier during question time, last week, for the first time, we reached half a million vaccine doses delivered in a week. Last week we also saw 100,000 in a day, which is a marked improvement on where we've been in recent weeks. We've got two-thirds of those vaccine doses being administered by GPs. Early this week we expect more than half of the over-70s population to be vaccinated with their first dose.

As the minister for health indicated on the weekend, we anticipate, based on Pfizer contractual arrangements and the information they provided, that we should have sufficient doses in the third and fourth quarter of this year to be able to ramp up those processes to ensure that we make significant progress by the end of this year. We have a population of just over 20 million that is eligible for vaccination. I do note that, in other countries around the world, they're sitting around after many weeks—

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