vaccine in Australia: Authorities gave priority to older residents considered to be more at risk of being hospitalized or dying from the virus.in Sydney has upended that strategy.
Health officials in Australia’s largest city have rushed to vaccinate thousands of students ahead of in-person end-of-school exams that they fear could accelerate the spread of coronavirus in a country that until recently had avoided the worst of the pandemic. A concert hall was repurposed last week as a mass-vaccination clinic for the teenagers. And up to 40,000 shots developed by Pfizer Inc.
Driving the new strategy is concern among health officials about the number of children and teenagers infected with the Delta variant., while small by global standards, offers a case study in how quickly it can spread in a lightly vaccinated population despite aggressive contact tracing, mask mandates and social distancing.
“Clearly, we are seeing more children being infected with Covid this year compared to what we were seeing last year,” said Marianne Gale, deputy chief health officer for New South Wales state, which includes Sydney.
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