Australia Vaccine Rollout Brought Forward to Early March

Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt at a press conference in the Main Committee Room at Parliament House in Canberra on April 8, 2020. Sam Mooy/Getty Images

Australia will roll out one of its COVID-19 vaccines earlier than expected, after the Pfizer/BioNTech inoculation looks set to be granted early approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).

The federal government had previously quoted the end of March as their expected roll-out date depending on the therapeutic approval.