The unprecedented increase in demand for flu vaccinations has impacted the availability of supplies says Australia’s Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr. Tony Hobbs.
5.1 million vaccines have been made available this year through the National Immunisation program but a 25% increase in demand is reported by states and territories.
The Department of Health is working with international suppliers to import more vaccines and has advised additional doses of trivalent influenza vaccines and quadrivalent vaccines will be soon made available.