Just a few weeks ago, Prime Minister Scott Morrison repeated it at every press conference:
"Vaccination is not a race."
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This speech, combined with the fact that just a few months ago the virus was hardly circulating in the country, did not give much incentive to those who were eligible to be vaccinated.
In addition, the government initially relied almost exclusively on the vaccine from the British laboratory AstraZeneca.
However, from the onset of the first, and extremely rare, cases of thrombosis, the health authorities have advised against this vaccine for those under 50, then those under 60.
And then the Delta variant arrived, causing, at the end of June, the reconfinement of Sydney, still in progress.
The paralysis of the Australian economic capital has prompted health authorities to review their copy.
For about a month, anyone over the age of 18 can be given the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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