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Speaker 2: Well, it certainly is the one that we're going to

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Speaker 2: going to be the beginning of the end. Let's hope

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Speaker 2: that our health Minister Greek Hunt joins us now, good morning,

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Speaker 2: Hello Mina. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I am very well, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. And it's such big news, isn't it that, finally,

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Speaker 2: after all this time we've seen America and Europe be vaccinated.

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Speaker 2: Finally the vaccines here starting as soon as next week.

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Speaker 2: We hear that first up are going to be people

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Speaker 2: who work in hotel quarantine, our age care workers, our

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Speaker 2: frontline health workers. How will we know when it's our turn?

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Speaker 1: So two things. Firstly, obviously these will be a workplace

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Speaker 1: and residential vaccinations. So we're outreaching for that first group.

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Speaker 1: That will take about six weeks. During the course of

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Speaker 1: next phase, which will have the over eighties, the over seventies.

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Speaker 1: What it called the iminocompromise, people who have different conditions

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Speaker 1: Then we go in the next phase to the over sixties,

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Speaker 1: if they're a global clinical trials, to the under sixteen.

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Speaker 1: So there will be lots of public advice and your

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Speaker 2: And it's twenty one days between the first dose and

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Speaker 2: the second dose. So in light of all these categories

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Speaker 2: you've just spoken about, when will all of Australia be vaccinated?

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Speaker 1: End of October is our objective? Then that remains our gardens.

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Speaker 1: So we start in late February. We aim to complete

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Speaker 1: and that gives us security of supply in a very

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Speaker 1: all else, we've got safety through that manufacturing process.

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Speaker 2: So at the end of October, all of Australia is vaccinated.

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Speaker 2: Does that mean if we're covered we can fly overseas?

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Speaker 2: Is that international borders open.

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Speaker 1: Well progressively during the year, we are likely to see

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Speaker 1: we know two big things. One is how long is

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Speaker 1: the impact of the vaccine? The world will be learning

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Speaker 1: ways what somebody described to me as the largest clinical

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Speaker 1: transmission impact. How much does it stop transmission? But the

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Speaker 1: evidence is beginning to grow of a very good and

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Speaker 1: strong transmission impact across the different vaccines. So all of

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Speaker 1: those things will help us get back towards a more

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Speaker 2: And for those of regular flu shots, would you get

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, there just needs to be two weeks between

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Speaker 1: the same time or within two weeks, that's unlikely to

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Speaker 1: be any problem whatsoever. But as a precaution, two weeks

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Speaker 1: between a COVID shot and a flu shot is what's recommended.

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Speaker 2: If people choose not to have the vaccine, and we

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Speaker 2: know there'll be people who are choosing that, Does that

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Speaker 2: Does a certain number of us need to have it

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Speaker 1: Well, we do want as many as possible. It's free,

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Speaker 1: it's universally available, but it's not mandatory and we've made

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Speaker 1: as you say, we want as many people as possible

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Speaker 1: to take it up. The more people to take it up,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't just protect them, but it protects their friends

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Speaker 1: that's a reason for everybody to consider it.

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Speaker 2: So you can still get COVID if you've had this.

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Speaker 1: Well, the world is learning on the transmission impact. What

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Speaker 1: we're seeing with the vaccines that we've been looking at

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Speaker 1: is the early results are up to one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: protection against serious illness, hospitalization and loss of life, and

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Speaker 1: a very significant impact against what's called mild to moderate disease.

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Speaker 1: But people may get some symptoms. But what really matters

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Speaker 1: here is that we're keeping people safe and it's that

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Speaker 1: safety in protection where the results of all of the

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Speaker 2: That's great. Well, we're down to our undies and our

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Speaker 2: single it's ready for our shot. Greg. So when we

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Speaker 2: get a lollipop emotion, well, thank you for joining us, minister.

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Speaker 1: All right, take care, thank.

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Speaker 2: You Minnestera Health.

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Speaker 1: Greg Hunt there, Jonesy and Amanda's Gamnation