{"id":1480,"date":"2020-10-08T16:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2020-10-08T16:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T16:17:26","slug":"australias-vaccination-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Vaccination Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backtracking on his earlier suggestion to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for all, the Australian prime minister has clarified, \u201cThere are no compulsory vaccines in Australia,\u201d and that there will be \u201cno compulsory vaccine, but there will be a lot of encouragement and measures to get as high a rate of acceptance as usual&#8221;. Visitors to the country, as well as returning Aussies, may, however, require to be immunized.<\/p>\n<p>The government has signed a letter of intent with pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University, which has reached Phase 3 clinical trials. Provided that the trials are successful, the prime minister hoped the vaccine would be available early in 2021 and that, &#8220;we will manufacture and supply vaccines straight away under our own steam and make it free for 25 million Australians.&#8221; He added that the country would aim for 95% of the population to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government has also signed a deal worth A$25m with US pharmaceutical company Becton<br \/>\nDickinson to supply 100 million needles and syringes.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: BBC News, August 17, 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-53840086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-53840086<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backtracking on his earlier suggestion to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for all, the Australian prime minister has clarified, \u201cThere are no compulsory vaccines in Australia,\u201d and that there will be \u201cno compulsory vaccine, but there will be a lot of encouragement and measures to get as high a rate of acceptance as usual&#8221;. Visitors to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107,42],"tags":[123,125,115,124,112],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-flash-news","category-in-the-news","tag-astrazeneca","tag-australian","tag-covid-19","tag-oxford-university","tag-vaccine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/medicosnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/114009491_oxford.jpg?fit=976%2C549&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicosnext.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}