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Experts say Australia could complete vaccination program by December
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Australia has a chance of vaccinating the entire adult population this year, as experts say a new deal for 25 million doses of Modernaâs mRNA vaccine makes a national December target reachable.
The Moderna vaccine will be used as a back-up option and as a booster for future COVID-19 variants. Ten million doses are to arrive this year and another 15 million next year.
Australia has ordered 25 million doses of the Moderna vaccine to support the national vaccination program.
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 09May 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January hig
The BBQ Man at the centre of Sydney s new coronavirus scare spent all Saturday afternoon finding the perfect grill to cook up a peri-peri chicken feast.
The man from Woollhara, in the eastern surburbs, who tested positive to the Indian variant of the virus on Wednesday, trekked across Sydney s inner west and western suburbs shopping for grills.
Finally he found the one he wanted at Barbeques Galore, and drove out to Casula in Sydney s west to pick it up at 4.30pm.
The next day he visited the Meat Store in Bondi Junction where he bought peri-peri chicken at $17.99 a kilo, according to the butcher.
New South Wales has recorded no new cases of coronavirus but restrictions including mask-wearing will remain in place until Monday morning.
A Sydney couple infected by the double mutant Indian variant of the disease tested positive on Wednesday and Thursday and are isolating at home.
Officials are scrambling to find out how they caught the virus, which has the same genomic sequence as a traveller from the US in hotel quarantine.
New South Wales has recorded no new cases of coronavirus but restrictions including mask-wearing will remain in place until Monday morning. Pictured: Commuters on Friday
NSW Transport workers hand out face masks at Town Hall rail station in Sydney