E&OE… Topics: COVID-19 vaccine rollout; Australia-New Zealand travel bubble. GREG HUNT: Good afternoon everybody. I’m here to provide an update on COVID cases, the COVID vaccine rollout, and also just an update on the safety and regulatory processes, steps taken and steps to be taken with regards to the latest international and domestic…
DR JILL GROGAN: I’m Jill Grogan. I’m a GP here at Albert Park Medical Centre and I’ve been a GP here for about 12 or 14 years. Absolutely delighted to welcome Minister Hunt here today and to see how the vaccination program’s going. We’re really pleased to be involved in the vaccination program.…
E&OE… Topics: COVID-19 update; Australian vaccine rollout. GREG HUNT: Thanks very much everybody, and I’m pleased to able to join you here today. It’s a day where I can say Happy Easter, both to the country, but also in terms of some of the progress we’re making with regards to cases and the…
E&OE… Topics: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout; Vaccine supply. KARL STEFANOVIC: Anyway, Greg Hunt, joins us. Good morning, Minister. Nice to see you. LEILA MCKINNON: Are you there? GREG HUNT: And I am here. Yes. LEILA MCKINNON: Excellent. Minister, 2.5 million doses currently sitting unused. Are you embarrassed by that number? …
E&OE… Topics: Vaccine rollout, COVID cases in Queensland and NSW, GREG HUNT: Good Afternoon everyone. I’m pleased to be here to give you an update two matters in particular. One is the national vaccine rollout, and very significant progress over not just the last 24 hours but the course of the last week-and-a-half,…
E&OE… Topics: COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Queensland lockdown NICK KOKOTIS: Good afternoon. I’d just like to welcome to our medical clinic, the Bluff Road Medical Centre, the Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mr Greg Hunt, Dr Lucas de Toca from Department of Health, and Mr Tim Wilson, the local member for Goldstein. Welcome…
E&OE… Topics: Phase 1B rollout, AstraZeneca doses held up in Europe. SCOTT EMERSON: Queensland now has more active coronavirus cases than in anywhere else in Australia. There are 67 active cases here and half are returned travellers from PNG. But we shouldn’t feel discouraged. In the first month of the vaccine rollout,…
E&OE… Topics: Maeve’s Law; COVID-19 vaccine rollout; assistance to PNG. GREG HUNT: Good morning everybody and I’m delighted to be joined this morning by the Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Australia Professor Michael Kidd. We’ll very shortly give you an update on the very heartening news from the TGA that not…
E&OE… Topics: Vaccination rollout. GREG HUNT: Good afternoon. I’m joined by Professor Murphy, the head of the vaccines taskforce and we’re pleased to give you an update on the COVID-19 progress in Australia, and we’ll begin with the fact that the latest advice from the National Incident Centre is zero cases of…
E&OE… Topics: AstraZeneca vaccine; COVID-19 vaccine rollout; PETER STEFANOVIC: Well, let’s go to Melbourne now. Joining us live is the Health Minister, Greg Hunt. Minister, good to see you. Thanks for joining us this morning. First of all, your reaction to this news overnight? A lot of European nations given the go…