Australia will fall well short of its initial Covid-19 vaccination target, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said and claimed European export restrictions were partly to blame.
Australia has been heralded globally as a pandemic success story, but it is one of the few wealthier nations to have an extremely limited vaccination roll-out.
So far, just 670,000 doses have been administered in Australia, according to official statistics, far below the initial plan to vaccinate four million people by the end of March.
Mr Morrison said that target had been "dispensed with" months ago, and that delayed exports of three million doses from Europe were "obviously going to impact the early success". "It's not a race," he said, accusing critics of