A healthcare professional prepares a dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Melbourne. But Trade Minister Dan Tehan says the world is still under the cloud of a pandemic and things can quickly change. It was the vaccine the government was relying heavily on, but it has since secured an additional 20 million Pfizer vaccine doses that will be shipped from abroad later in the year. "That is definitely the aim, that is the goal we have set trying to have all Australians have a dose by the end of the year," Mr Tehan told Sky News' Sunday Agenda programme. In a joint statement, Health Minister Greg Hunt, Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Minister for International Development and the Pacific Zed Seselja said: "Our region's health security and economic recovery is intertwined with our own."

Source: Otago Daily Times April 11, 2021 00:00 UTC