Australia orders more COVID-19 vaccines for total of 135 million doses

The Australian government has agreed to purchase two more COVID-19 vaccines in development, beefing up the country’s prospective arsenal against the pandemic to 135 million doses as it aims to complete a mass inoculation programme within months.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday the government will buy 40 million vaccine doses from Novavax, and 10 million from Pfizer and BioNTech.

That adds to the 85 million doses Australia has already committed to buy from AstraZeneca and CSL Ltd should trials prove successful, taking the country’s total anticipated outlay to A$3.2 billion ($2.3 billion).

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