Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the move, in a press conference from Canberra, just days after his country also secured 500,000 about-to-expire Pfizer doses from Singapore.
“The plane is on the tarmac now. It will be leaving tomorrow,” Mr Morrison said.
“Those doses will be coming over the course of the next few weeks, which will see us double the Pfizer doses that we have during September.
“This means from Downing Street to Down Under, we are doubling down on what the Pfizer doses are here in Australia this month.”
Australia has one of the slowest vaccine rollouts among wealthy countries, with just 36.4 per cent of people over the age of 16 fully vaccinated, according to the Australian Immunisation Register
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