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today we're going to take a look at australia's case for the three
dose vaccine and pfizer and biointex supply an additional 200 million doses to the eu
i'm sage for with the omicron variant cases multiplying each day globally it has been
discovered that the variant is capable of evading the effects of the existing vaccines an expert
task force has recently discovered solid evidence to support the notion following these developments
australians may soon have to get a third dose to be considered fully vaccinated the federal
cabinet will be holding an emergency meeting soon to discuss public health measures to curb rapidly
increasing numbers of cases in new south wales and victoria it is expected that leaders would urge
prime minister scott morrison to agree to speed up the schedule for booster shots acting victorian
premier james molino said his state and the new south wales would use an extraordinary meeting
of national cabinet on wednesday to push for a shorter gap than five months and it has now been
passed the health ministers in new south wales and victoria have written to their federal counterpart
greg hunt asking for boosters to be made available from four months after the second dose
the australian technical advisory group on immunisation is also pushing the state to consider
the three dose vaccine scheduled amidst the new developments otagi recently reduced the advised
interval from six months to five months the people due for boosters over the christmas and new year
period are able to get third dose days early under recent advice from otagi it is important to note
that australia has been witnessing a considerable increase in omicron infections in recent days and
the rise in the number of cases amid the holiday season has prompted a debate among epidemiologists
over whether public health restrictions such as mass regulations social distancing norms
partial lockdowns curfews etc should be reinstated in the country despite the road map to reopening
the prime minister seems opposed to this idea in a recent statement made by morrison he said that
australia really needs to shift from a culture of state imposed mandates to personal responsibility
and choice he also added that the state is not planning to back lockdowns and they'll not shut
down the lives of people modena has also today released data from its booster vaccine trials
the company's continuously advancing boosters to address variants of concern the strategy
includes surveying the prototype vaccine mrna 1273 at the authorised booster dose of 50
micrograms and a higher dose of 100 micrograms madone also announced safety and tolerability
data from the phase 2 and 3 study of the 100 micrograms booster dose of the mrna 1273 and
the trials showed that 100 microgram booster dose of mrna 1273 was generally safe and well tolerated
stefan bensel chief executive officer of modena said to respond to this highly transmissible
variant modena will continue to rapidly advance an omicron specific booster candidate into clinical
testing in case it becomes necessary in the future and we'll also continue to generate and share data
across our booster strategies with public health authorities to help them make evidence-based
decisions on the best of vaccination strategies against the sars coff ii however in an advice
issued to national cabinet the australian health protection principle committee warned that
even if the variant caused milder illness and wasn't extremely severe it could strain the health
system's capacity recommending the government to impose minimal to moderate restrictions
and increased efforts to boost vaccine coverage in other news more than 200 million doses of
commonality will be provided to the eu by pfizer and bioentech the member states of the european
commission or ec have reached an agreement with the vaccine developers pfizer and bioentec
in which they will exercise an option to buy over 200 million
additional doses of commonalty to their current supply this comes after the netherlands has gone
into lockdown as the omicron variant spreads like wildfire across the world and this order will
also include any potential vaccines to fight the new variants of covert without additional costs
this now increases the planned delivery of doses to the ec member states to be 650 million in total
commonality is based on biointex mrna technology and was developed jointly by pfizer and bioentec
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