As the Queensland government prepares to lift CCP virus restrictions across the state, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called on all state and territory leaders to hold urgent twice-weekly national cabinet meetings starting Monday, to address problems with the immunisation rollout. This comes after the federal government last week announced a new advisory about the AstraZeneca jab for Australians under the age of 50, following advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. Morrison earlier this week abandoned a target to provide at least one vaccine dose to the country’s near 26 million population by year-end after restricting the rollout of its favoured AstraZeneca vaccine. The switch away from the AstraZeneca vaccine comes after European Medicine Agency found “possible links” between the vaccine and an extremely rare but serious blood clotting issue. Morrison said on April 14 the return to more frequent meetings of the group of federal and state …
PM Calls For Urgent Meetings with State Leaders to Solve Vaccine Rollout Problems
April 13, 2021
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