Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced an agreement with British pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca, enabling Australia to produce a COVID-19 vaccine—if advanced human trials are successful.
Speaking at AstraZeneca’s North Ryde facility in Sydney on Aug. 19, alongside federal Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly, and AstraZeneca country president Liz Chatwin Morrison declared, the government had “signed a letter of intent with AstraZeneca,” and if trials pass the advanced stages of testing, a vaccine for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus commonly known as coronavirus, will be “manufactured here in Australia.”
