Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

With the record number of doses administered in the last 24 hours, we now see close to 14.5 million doses administered across Australia. Our country is administering vaccines to the tune of being able to provide a jab to the entire population of Adelaide every single week. It has been a huge scale-up, as I indicated before. In doing so, we have seen some of the most important cohorts who have primary access turn out in record numbers, taking responsibility for themselves in doing so but responding to that call. Of Australians aged over 70, some 82.2 per cent have now received their first dose and 49.9 per cent have now received their second dose of vaccine. Of the entire eligible population aged over 16, some 46 per cent of all Australians have now received at least that first dose.