Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination rates ‘on a par with Albania’
Mass vaccination sites are urgently needed to stay ahead of the coronavirus which is mutating faster than we are vaccinating, says UNSW Adjunct Professor Bill Bowtell
Health experts say Australia needs mass vaccination sites, warning the coronavirus is mutating faster than the pace of its COVID-19 vaccinations.
University of NSW Adjunct Professor Bill Bowtell, a strategic health policy consultant, says the country is lagging behind the rest of the world on the rate of vaccinations.
He pointed to Our World in Data figures showing the cumulative number of vaccine doses given per 100 people in Australia was 3.31 on 4 April which put the country on par with Bolivia and Albania.
Australia has reached 842,000 vaccinations, which leaves 97% of Australians yet to be vaccinated, and well short of the Federal Government’s projected four million doses by the end of March, according to Professor Bowtell.
