Liberal Party of Australia
The National Cabinet met today to discuss Australia’s COVID-19 response and changes to the Australian COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy.
National Cabinet continues to work together to address issues and find solutions to the health and economic consequences of COVID-19.
There have been 29,602 confirmed cases in Australia and, sadly, 910 people have died. More than 16.4 million tests have been undertaken in Australia.
Globally, there have been over 143 million cases and sadly over 3 million deaths, with around 1.2 million new cases and more than 16,000 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge in many countries around the world.
Three new COVID-19 cases in Victorian quarantine
Victoria has recorded no new locally acquired coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, with three new cases in hotel quarantine.
Hereâs the latest COVID-19 stats from the garden state.
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Health authorities have confirmed over-50s are expected to be able to book in for coronavirus vaccinations sooner than planned, as they admitted some eligible under-50s are cancelling appointments.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said some states have significant capacity in some of their AstraZeneca clinics, despite not all the people in phases 1A and 1B having had jabs.
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Health Minister Greg Hunt said more details will be given this week about the planned vaccination of over-50s.(Photograph by Chris Hopkins)
Mr Hunt said most people getting vaccinated were still in the first phases, which include frontline workers, over-70s, over-80s and aged care residents.
Commonwealth distributes nearly 600,000 vaccines over past week20/04/2021|7min
The federal government distributed nearly 600,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine last week and is expected to increase that number this week, according to the Vaccine Operations Coordinator Commodore Eric Young.
Commodore Young was appointed the operations coordinator for the Health Department’s Vaccine Operation Centre and will continuously brief National Cabinet in that capacity.
The operations coordinator said the federal government will distribute every vaccine with the exception of an “appropriate contingency”.
“With the support of our partners, DHL and Linfox, we distributed nearly 600,000 doses of the vaccine across Australia last week, and this week, we re on track to slightly increase that again,” he said.
Liberal Party of Australia
The National Cabinet met today to discuss Australia’s COVID-19 response and changes to the Australian COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy.
National Cabinet continues to work together to address issues and find solutions to the health and economic consequences of COVID-19.
There have been 29,500 confirmed cases in Australia and, sadly, 910 people have died. More than 16.3 million tests have been undertaken in Australia.
Globally there have been over 141 million cases and sadly over 3 million deaths, with around 698,000 new cases and more than 9,000 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge in many countries around the world.