Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I'm happy to take those dates on notice, but my understanding is that they are correct. In addition to that, though, what we have done in Australia is that we've put in place a system which included six principal contracts for vaccine acquisition in Australia. That includes, firstly, 40 million Pfizer vaccines. We are in that process. Secondly, we have the AstraZeneca vaccines, over 53 million of which have been acquired. It's very important. But for the fact that we made the decision for sovereign vaccine manufacturing, it is clear, we would not have been able to receive the vast majority of those. We did that in light of the times that were available for international distributions of vaccines to Australia and New Zealand. In addition to that, we've acquired 51 million Novavax.

Dr Leigh interjecting—

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