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According to Newland Media reports, Australia has approved the Pfizer vaccine for use across the country last month. The Drug Administration announced on February 16 that it would approve AstraZeneca. ) The new crown vaccine is used in Australia.
Australia has now secured 53.8 million doses of AstraZeneca's new crown vaccine.
AstraZeneca's new crown vaccine was developed by the University of Oxford. The promotion strategy of most vaccines in Australia depends on whether the AstraZeneca vaccine is approved, because the local vaccine manufacturer CSL has produced millions of doses of AstraZeneca in Melbourne. Likang vaccine.
After the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the Pfizer vaccine for use in Australia last month, it said in a latest statement that people over the age of 18 can be vaccinated with AstraZeneca's new crown vaccine.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said: "AstraZeneca vaccines have reached the standards of safety, quality and efficacy and will be provided to Australians free of charge."
Morrison said: "This means that Australia now has Two safe and effective new coronavirus vaccines, Australia’s first batch of vaccines were imported from foreign countries. In the next few months, AstraZeneca vaccines will be produced in Australia.”
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said that according to According to the current plan, the AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to be used in early March, initially imported from foreign countries, and the vaccine manufacturer CSL will later produce it locally and increase its production to one million doses per month.
The Food and Drug Administration stated that although people over the age of 65 would "have a strong immune response" to AstraZeneca's new crown vaccine, in clinical tests, because there were not enough patients with the new crown virus, they could not confirm the vaccine Actual utility in this age group.
Director of the Food and Drug Administration, John Skerritt, stated that there is no upper age limit for the AstraZeneca vaccine. He said: "We recommend that the elderly should be vaccinated with AstraZeneca."
However, the statement added: "Whether elderly patients need to be vaccinated depends on individual circumstances."
Skerrit Said that vaccination with AstraZeneca is effective at an interval of 4 to 12 weeks between the first injection and the second injection, but he recommends an interval of 12 weeks.
As for the Pfizer vaccine, it is recommended that there be a three-week interval between the first and second shots.
On the other hand, Hunter said that the first batch of Pfizer vaccines has now arrived in Australia as the first phase of Australia's new crown vaccine promotion plan is in full swing.
It is reported that at noon on February 15, Canberra time, more than 142,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine arrived in Sydney. The priority groups will be vaccinated from February 22.
Virus debris was found in the sewage of the Loganholme Sewage Treatment Center in southern Brisbane. The Queensland Department of Health has listed dozens of districts under the jurisdiction of the center as high alert areas.
The Queensland Ministry of Health said on February 15 that COVID-19 debris was detected from the sewage treatment center. The sewage from the center comes from 35 districts in southern Brisbane.
The virus fragments found in the sewage may be that the virus in the body of the person who has been infected with the virus continues to "shed", but it is not infectious.
However, the highly contagious British mutant strain currently circulating has caused an epidemic in the Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport (Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport), and local health departments dare not take it lightly.
"The infectivity of new mutant strains that have emerged abroad is higher than that of the virus strains that have appeared before in Queensland. We are very concerned about this." Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said.
Jeannette Young requires people in the following areas, even if they have only mild symptoms, to go to the testing site for testing immediately.
The common symptoms of virus infection are: fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, feeling tired, loss of taste or smell.
The 35 districts under the jurisdiction of the Loganholme Sewage Treatment Center that require high alert are as follows:
* Berrinba
* Bethania
* Boronia Heights
* Browns Plains
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0 * Daisy Hill
* Edens Landing
* Heritage Park
* Hillcrest
* Holmview
* Kingston
* Kuraby
* Kuraby
* Logan Central
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0 * Loganlea
* Marsden
* Meadowbrook
* Park Ridge
* Priestdale
* Regents Park
* Rochedale South
* Rochedale South
* Shailer Park _p3 pack_p0 Stock Creek Spring Slack _p0 _p0 Stock Tanah Merah
* Underwood
* Waterford
* Waterford West
* Woodridge
* Yarrabilba
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Source: Australia Newland Media
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