EU-Backed Block on Vaccine Shipment Won’t Affect Australia’s Rollout: Minister

EU-Backed Block on Vaccine Shipment Won’t Affect Australia’s Rollout: Minister
A nurse holds a box containing viles of the AstraZeneca adenovirus vector vaccine. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has said that Italy’s and the European Union’s (EU) block on a shipment of 250,000 AstraZeneca doses of the CCP virus vaccine will not affect the country’s immunisation rollout.

Worried about suffering from a shortage of the vaccine supply, the Italian government stopped the shipment to Australia, noting that the country did not have a high prevalence of the virus, with lower infection and death rates than others.