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The Daily Telegraph is reporting this morning that Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, will on Friday announce it has approved Pfizer’s application for a licence for its vaccine to be given to children aged 12 to 16.
The Telegraph quotes federal health minister Greg Hunt told the Telegraph that “protecting children would be an important and welcome additional step in the national vaccination program”.
Forty-one workers at a Melbourne hospital have been temporarily stood down after a fellow staffer worked a shift while infectious with Covid-19.
AAP reports the employee of Casey Hospital, a 229-bed facility in the city’s outer southeast, returned a positive test on Tuesday.
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