{"id":49718,"date":"2021-02-15T09:54:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T23:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=49718"},"modified":"2021-02-15T14:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:38:59","slug":"the-first-shipment-of-covid-vaccines-will-arrive-in-australia-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/the-first-shipment-of-covid-vaccines-will-arrive-in-australia-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"First Shipment Of COVID Vaccines Arrive In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPDATE, 2:06pm: <\/strong>Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed the first shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines has now landed in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are now 142,000 doses on Australian soil. By the end of February approximately 60,000 Australians will have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">80,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are due to land in Australia from Europe by the end of this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/roweys-sports-show-podcast-12-february-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey's Sports Show Podcast - 12 February 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/australia-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-jabs-to-arrive-this-week-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine\/52a49867-6e07-4143-9580-03178954592d?ocid=Social-9News\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">According to 9 News<\/a>, the NT has announced its roll-out will begin next week while an exact date for the rest of the country remains unknown. Frontline workers, hotel quarantine staff and aged care workers will all be among the first to get the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunrise host David Koch has told FIVEAA Breakfast Australia had the \u201cluxury\u201d of delaying its roll-out compared to the UK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t been in as dire need as they have been in the UK,\u201d Kochie told David &amp; Will. \u201cNot only from a health situation but they\u2019re still in lockdown until the middle of March\u2026 they\u2019ve had horrendous figures over there.<\/p><p>\u201cThe extra time gives us a chance to see if there are any side-effects that were unknown from mass vaccinations. We\u2019ve been given the luxury to take our time. I don\u2019t think we realise how big the impact is in the UK\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019m reasonably confident we\u2019ll handle this vaccination process pretty well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>FIVEAA LIVE STREAM &#8211; MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F244361733836935%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE, 2:06pm: Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed the first shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines has now landed in Australia. There are now 142,000 doses on Australian soil. By the end of February approximately 60,000 Australians will have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. * 80,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-49718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First Shipment Of COVID Vaccines Arrive In Australia - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/the-first-shipment-of-covid-vaccines-will-arrive-in-australia-this-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"First Shipment Of COVID Vaccines Arrive In Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UPDATE, 2:06pm: Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed the first shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines has now landed in Australia. 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