Australia has purchased about 1 million doses of Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine from Poland to add to its inoculation efforts in Sydney and its home state, which on Saturday entered a snap lockdown amid record new infections.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday the extra vaccines would start arriving immediately and over half will be directed to 20- to 39-year-olds in New South Wales, as the state reported its second largest increase in locally transmitted infections. L4N2PL09M
"We've been seeing those case numbers rise in Sydney and New South Wales each day and that is terribly concerning," Morrison said at a news conference in Canberra. New South Wales, the most populous state, reported 415 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, the second largest increase after the previous day's record 466.
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