Doubt Aus will completely phase out Astrazeneca. They manufacture it in Melbourne, and has proven to be low risk (has been some blood clotting side effects) for the over 60s. Getting supply of Pfizer will continue to be an international lolly scramble for awhile yet.
NZ is not really ahead of Aus. Stats amongst the stats, like an election run in! People are only just starting to get their 2nd jabs here now, as a 3 month gap between 1st & 2nd jabs with Astrazeneca. So a reasonable number of people in Aus with 1 jab, with a very low popn % fully vaccinated. That will change alot over next 1-3 months. NZ with only Pfizer (3 week gap between jabs) naturally has a higher % fully vaccinated.
Aus has done 7.8M jabs overall. NZ 1.2M. So if anything on a popn basis Aus is a bit ahead, according to Bloomberg.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
Anyway good to see Morrison finally announce some sort of co-ordinated plan going forward, and I see this as all good news for the Nix, re a normal home & away season - providing there are no anti-vaxxers in the squad!
NZ is not really ahead of Aus. Stats amongst the stats, like an election run in! People are only just starting to get their 2nd jabs here now, as a 3 month gap between 1st & 2nd jabs with Astrazeneca. So a reasonable number of people in Aus with 1 jab, with a very low popn % fully vaccinated. That will change alot over next 1-3 months. NZ with only Pfizer (3 week gap between jabs) naturally has a higher % fully vaccinated.
Aus has done 7.8M jabs overall. NZ 1.2M. So if anything on a popn basis Aus is a bit ahead, according to Bloomberg.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
Anyway good to see Morrison finally announce some sort of co-ordinated plan going forward, and I see this as all good news for the Nix, re a normal home & away season - providing there are no anti-vaxxers in the squad!