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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci

Fifth Covid vaccine for Australian adults to roll out later this month

A woman receives a booster dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The health minister, Mark Butler, says the government has 4m Omicron-specific booster doses available now and that another 10m are expected to arrive this month. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

A fifth Covid vaccine dose will be made available to Australian adults from later this month.

The health minister, Mark Butler, has announced all adults who have not had a booster or a confirmed case of Covid-19 in the past six months will be eligible for another dose from 20 February, after the government accepted the advice of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (Atagi).

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