Senate debates
Monday, 15 February 2021
Questions without Notice
COVID-19: Vaccine
2:06 pm
Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services) Share this | Hansard source
I thank Senator Bragg for his question. Australia is fortunate to be in a position of having secured enough doses to cover the Australian population three times over. So far the Australian government has agreements in place for our community in Australia, which includes 20 million Pfizer doses, 53.8 million AstraZeneca doses and 51 million Novavax doses. We also have access up to 25.6 million doses through the Covax Facility.
As I have outlined, the first delivery of Pfizer doses arrived today, and the international AstraZeneca doses supplies to Australia are likely in March, subject to both TGA approval and shipping, of course. Domestic AstraZeneca production via CSL of 50 million doses is likely to be ready for supply to our program.
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