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Australia orders more Covid-19 vaccines for total of 135 million doses

 The Australian government has agreed to purchase two more COVID-19 vaccines in development, beefing up the country’s prospective arsenal against the pandemic to 135 million doses as it aims to complete a mass inoculation programme within months.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday the government will buy 40 million vaccine doses from Novavax NVAX.O, and 10 million from Pfizer PFE.N and BioNTech 22UAy.F.

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