They will be rolled out through Sydney’s vaccination hubs after Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the doses would be targeted towards the NSW capital as it’s Covid-19 outbreak worsens.It followed the state’s “most concerning day” as 466 local coronavirus cases were recorded in NSW on Saturday, along with four more deaths. About 530,000 of the doses would be prioritised for express delivery to the 12 city local government areas.Those council areas are Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta and Strathfield. Penrith is also included for the following suburbs – Caddens, Claremont Meadows, Colyton, Erskine Park, Kemps Creek, Kingswood, Mount Vernon, North St Marys, Orchard Hills, Oxley Park, St Clair and St Marys.“These 1 million doses of hope, which will give people right across the country, particularly in NSW, where they are fighting this Delta strain in the most significant battle we have had in this country during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic up until now,” he told reporters on Sunday.“A key factor in being able to secure these doses from our Polish friends has been that we have had a significant outbreak in our largest city.”Australians aged between 20 and 39 would be targeted in the rollout of the extra Pfizer doses as the Delta variant continues to infect a large majority of the country’s younger population.“This will greatly assist, particularly the effort in NSW, to assist them as they go into this harder lockdown, and those lockdown measures must be adhered to,” Mr Morrison said.Health Minister Greg Hunt said the extra doses would bring the country’s national vaccine rollout forward.“Much of the burden of the fourth quarter as being brought forward to the third quarter,” he said.“We are vaccinating more people than we had planned and anticipated was possible at this time and that is a tribute to both the supply, logistics and above all else, the Australian people that are coming forward and those doing the vaccinations.”Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the doses were on a plane that left Warsaw on Saturday and then Dubai on Sunday morning, and would arrive in the country late on Sunday evening.
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