Category: Greg Hunt

Vaccine Rollout to Begin Next Monday: Australian Health Minister

Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout will begin next week after the first doses of the Pfizer jab landed in Sydney. “The eagle has landed,” Health Minister Greg Hunt told reporters in Canberra on Monday. More than 142,000 doses are being taken to a secure location and batches will be assessed for damage and quality in the…


142,000 Vaccine Doses Land in Australia

Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout will begin next week after the first doses of the Pfizer jab landed in Sydney. “The eagle has landed,” Health Minister Greg Hunt told reporters in Canberra on Monday. More than 142,000 doses are being taken to a secure location and batches will be assessed for damage and quality in the…


First 142,000 Vaccine Doses Have ‘Landed’ in Australia

Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout will begin next week after the first doses of the Pfizer jab landed in Sydney. “The eagle has landed,” Health Minister Greg Hunt told reporters in Canberra on Monday. More than 142,000 doses are being taken to a secure location and batches will be assessed for damage and quality in the…


Promising Signs for Virus Vaccine Take-Up in Australia

As Australia awaits the go ahead for the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine, new figures suggest people are more than happy to get their jab. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says five-year old immunisation rates are now beyond the aspirational target of 95 percent coverage. “Reaching our target of 95 percent supports herd immunity to…


Australia Is Seeking Additional Information Regarding Norway Pfizer Concerns

Australia is investigating reports that Norwegian authorities are concerned about the safety of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine after a number of elderly and frail people died after being inoculated. The Norwegian Medicines Agency has reported 29 people had suffered side effects from having the vaccine, 13 of them fatal. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt is…


Australia Vaccine Rollout Brought Forward to Early March

Australia will roll out one of its COVID-19 vaccines earlier than expected, after the Pfizer/BioNTech inoculation looks set to be granted early approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). The federal government had previously quoted the end of March as their expected roll-out date depending on the therapeutic approval. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said…


Australia to Trial ‘Tunable’ CCP Virus Vaccine For Mutating Strains

The University of Melbourne will get over $1.5 million to accelerate trials of two next-generation “targeted and tunable” COVID-19 vaccine. It comes as SARS-COV-2 mutations spread worldwide posing questions about the effectiveness of existing vaccines. Announcing the funding on Dec. 3, Minister for Health Greg Hunt said: “These vaccines offer a number of potential advantages…


Health Minister Hunt Praises NSW, Victoria Over Virus Outbreak Response

The federal government has applauded New South Wales and Victoria’s responses to fresh COVID-19 outbreaks while urging Victoria to allow its residents back home. The recent outbreaks in NSW could have been on a “vastly larger scale” than the disastrous second wave in Victoria, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said on Sunday, describing advice from…