Australia secured access to a 'promising' potential coronavirus vaccine, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the country would offer free doses to the entire population.
However, Australia has signed an Aus$25 million agreement with American medical technology company Becton Dickinson to buy 100 million needles and syringes to administer the doses.
First shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine created by Western laboratories have often been snapped up by the United States. Earlier this month he called on nations to share potential vaccines, saying any country that discovered one and did not make it available globally"would be judged terribly by history."Early in the pandemic it was considered among the most successful at curbing the virus's spread until an outbreak in Melbourne, the country's second-biggest city, that authorities struggled to contain.
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