Africa Business Radio

Officials have said nearly half a million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Australia overnight.Australia is under pressure to ramp up its vaccination programme and last week agreed deals with the United Kingdom and Singapore for a total of about 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, double this month’s supply.Lieutenant General John Frewen, head of the vaccination task force, told broadcaster ABC that there will be another set of flights in a couple of days, but they will be getting a million of the four million every week over the next four weeks.Frewen says one million doses of Moderna will also reach Australia in a week or so expanding a vaccine rollout, which also includes AstraZeneca.