Australia won't rush Pfizer after homegrown vaccine canned Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says his government won’t rush approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine because he wants people to have confidence in the productCANBERRA, Australia -- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that his government won't rush approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine because he wants people to have confidence in the productHis comments come as Australian researchers said they were abandoning their own potential vaccine because it produced false positive results to HIV tests. Morrison said Australia was in a different position to Britain, which has given emergency approval to the Pfizer roll out, and the United States, where a government advisory panel has endorsed the Pfizer vaccine. The government expects the Australian regulator to approve the vaccine produced jointly by Pfizer and BioNTech by late January. Australia has an agreement for 10 million Pfizer doses and will have an option to buy more for its 26 million people if supplies allow. Australian researchers announced Friday they had abandoned development of a potential vaccine because the false positive results to HIV tests undermined public confidence.

Source: ABC News December 11, 2020 05:29 UTC