Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Aug 2020
Australia 'close' to gaining access to Oxford's promising COVID-19 vaccine
16 August 2020 - The Morrison government is close to striking an international deal to domestically produce a vaccine to conquer the coronavirus by next year.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said he was "genuinely optimistic" a COVID-19 vaccine will be on the global market by 2021 and the government would soon reach an agreement to produce it locally.
Mr Hunt said on Sunday he'd been cautious in the past that attempts to create a vaccine would be successful but the latest expert medical advice was that there had been great progress.
