Workers in healthcare and hotel quarantine first in line as Australia's vaccine rollout scheme brought forward

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Federal Health Minister has revealed the rollout schedule for a COVID-19 vaccine has been brought forward slightly.

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Published 6 January 2021 9:44am

Updated 6 January 2021 9:48am

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Federal Health Minister has revealed the rollout schedule for a COVID-19 vaccine has been brought forward slightly.

The federal government has brought forward the rollout of a vaccine for COVID-19 by a couple of weeks to early March.

The previous timetable was for late March.

"In the same way that [medical] advice has allowed us to bring forward the time from the first half of the year to late March, and now early March, we will be guided by the medical advice," Health Minister Greg Hunt told The Daily Telegraph in an interview.

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