Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a besieged New South Wales will receive an extra 90,000 doses a week of the Pfizer vaccine as Greater Sydney struggles with a Covid-19 outbreak.
NSW was receiving about 150,000 doses a week but with 141 new locally acquired infections on Sunday, bringing the state’s total more than 2000 since June 16, more Pfizer has been redirected to NSW.
It comes after a relief package of 50,000 Pfizer immunisations were announced for NSW on Friday.
“Allocations going forward into next week is 90,000 more Pfizer each week than it was back in the week commencing July 5,” Prime Minister Morrison said.
“And in the weeks following, it goes up to 110,000 above what it was back in the beginning of July.
“So, that is a significant increase that we‘ve seen since the early part of this month, to where we are now.
“New South Wales, both GPs and the state distribution centres, were receiving 147,720 doses of Pfizer per week.
“The week commencing next week, they will be receiving 90,000 more than that. That does not include the additional 50,000 which I extended to the Premier on Friday.”
Though, Mr Morrison said vaccines were not the key to greater Sydney and other cities around Australia coming out of lockdowns.
That is despite state premiers and health officials repeatedly telling the general public that getting a Covid-19 jab would be an eventual ticket to freedom.
“There’s not an easy way to bring the cases down and it’s the lockdown that does that work,” Mr Morrison said.
“The vaccines can provide some assistance, but they're not what is going to end this lockdown.”
Mr Morrison said he did not want it in “anyone’s mind that it replaces the principle tool, which is the lockdown”.
“It's not a substitute for a lockdown. And you need to weigh up the effectiveness of that with the disruption to the broader vaccine program that could set other states and territories back some way in meeting their vaccination targets,“ he said.
“We need to get the whole country vaccinated. Those going through lockdowns, that’s the principle way by which we’re able to bring the Delta variant under control in those cities.”
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