Medical workers prepare the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at the Hyatt Perth quarantine hotel in Perth, Monday, February 22, 2021. Australia will begin its roll out of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine on Monday, the country’s most complicated logistical exercise to date. Photo: AAP Image supplied by WA Health, Josh Fernandes
26 February 2021 3:20pm
On Monday, Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout officially began with Prime Minister Scott Morrison receiving one of the first Pfizer BioNTech jabs the day prior.
According to the Australian Government’s fact sheets, the vaccine is “voluntary and free and available to all people living in Australia”.
The vaccine rollout is being administered in stages beginning with quarantine and border workers, aged care and disability care staff and residents and frontline health care worker subgroups.