Australia's medical authority has granted provisional approval for Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that the Therapeutic Goods Administration provided provisional approval of the Moderna vaccine for use among Australian adults, according to reports.
Prime Minister Morrison said a third vaccine to the rollout on top of doses from Pfizer and AstraZeneca would help the government reach the goal of fully vaccinating 70 per cent of the adult population by the end of 2021. One million doses of the vaccine will arrive in Australia in September, which will require two doses to be administered 28 days apart. Every vaccination saves lives and gets us one step closer to reaching 70 per ent of Australians, aged over 16, vaccinated before the end of the year, he said.
"And so Australians are really stepping forward. But please keep doing that. I know it's tough. I know it's challenging. But please keep coming forward to be vaccinated", he said. The TGA approval comes at a time when about 12 million Australians in New South Wales and Victoria, the country's most and second most heavily populated state respectively, are in lockdown to prevent the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19.
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