Australia secures access two more potential COVID vaccines

Australia has secured another two agreements to access potential COVID-19 vaccines early next year.

Scott Morrison tours the Scientia Clinical Research facility in Sydney Source: AAP

Australia will get 135 million doses of four different potential vaccines at a cost of $ 3.2 billion

The four are the University of Queensland and CSL vaccines, the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca candidates, and now 40 million doses from Novavax, and 10 million from Pfizer.

Regardless of which vaccine works, the federal government says health workers, the vulnerable elderly in Australia will be immunized first and for free.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks with an analytical chemist during a visit to AstraZeneca in Sydney, Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Source: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts

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