The vaccination of children as young as 12 is likely to be approved by Australian health authorities on Friday despite ongoing debates worldwide on the safety of extending national vaccine roll-outs to children. The approach being considered in England is currently more cautious, with only clinically vulnerable children and those living with vulnerable adults likely to be offered the vaccine – though it is expected that the offer could be extended to all children by the end of the year. The Mail Australia has the story.
Currently, only [Australians] aged 16 or over were recommended to get the jab.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration, which oversees Australia’s medicines and vaccinations, will announce the approval on Friday, the [Australian] Telegraph reported.
For children with underlying health conditions which can make coronavirus more serious, approval to get the vaccine is set to be fast-tracked with it offered to those eligible within days, senior sources say.
Health Minister Greg Hunt said the the new vaccination program would aim to “protect children” and was an “important and welcome additional step”.
“Significantly we planned for this outcome and acquired the vaccines in the event of eligibility,” he said.
The official approval through the ATAGI should take around four weeks, amid a spate of outbreaks within schools in Victoria.
Several New South Wales schools have also been affected during Sydney’s recent outbreak, including South Coogee Public School in the city’s east where at least four children tested positive.
The outbreak forced 555 primary school students into two weeks of isolation after they were deemed close contacts.
Children as young as 12 have already been receiving vaccines in America for several months. …
The huge change to Australia’s vaccine roll-out comes after Scott Morrison apologised for the program not meeting its targets but insists some of the issues were out of his control.
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I like buying cheap clothes for informal wear. I bought most of my Tee shirts from Tesco. The fact that a £55 jacket is made by people paid 44p/hr does seem unreasonable in that somewhere from the cotton farming to the cash register someone may be making disproportionate profit.
So what to do? If we stop buying £55 jackets from Next we can buy them from somewhere else? How does that help the sewing workers in Bangladesh? If we pressure Next into not buying from Bangladesh will that help? If we refuse to buy Bangladeshi made clothes from any other outlet will that help them? Of course not.
We significantly reduced buying cheap consumer products during the lockdowns. That meant many in such employment lost their work. There was no furlough scheme in Bangladesh.
We must be careful what we wish for.
You are addressing idiots. No amount of reason or evidence can convince an idiot.
Lockdown was only possible because of the preponderance of idiots.
Spot on. IQ levels have plummeted .
Correct, this is no accident – they try to stuff us full of processed food to make us ill and stupid, them big pharma comes in to save the day with their dodgy compounds of limited effect, and unknown side effects. The politicians repeat the same lies they did at the last election and nobody notices – pretty depressing really but us and TDS can help to wake a few up at least as we descend down the plughole of tyranny…at least we’ll have someone to help keep us warm as we starve and freeze on the street, once they shutdown our bank accounts for no compliance of the next jab mandate – LOL.
Wise words, wise words indeed.
Trade through comparative advantage. We can’t make things cheaply because of socialist state and nut zero. It doesn’t change the fact Linekar is an odious toad who has allegedly treated the women in his life incredibly badly.
Choice… earn 44p an hour or earn nothing. Tough one.
In purchase terms how does 44p in Bangladesh compare with 44p here in the UK? Don’t know? Of course not.
In the 1950s my father earned 15p an hour,
A pint of beer in the 1970s cost 15p, today the average cost is £4-39. Why?
There is a poverty of understanding when it comes to economics, economic history – or in fact most things.
Stop it with the emoting and learn some economics.
£55 per jacket includes the cost of capital, promotion, operating shops, transportation, and oh dear profit, the reward for investing your capital. Profit! How dare you!
People in rich Countries should mind their own business – they can’t manage their own affairs – leave people in poor developing Countries alone to develop and move themselves out of overtly by working, just as our ancestors did during the Industrial Revolution.
I blame the schools and 80 years of Socialist brain-rot affecting the majority of the ignorant, mindless blobs in our population allergic to productive work.
Don’t forget – vote Labour 04 July – lots of free stuff paid for by the magic money tree. Work is for mugs and Bangladeshi.
Ah, Gravy Lineker. I don’t suppose it has occurred to him to donate his £2 million Next fee to a Third World charity in order that it might be used to improve the lot of the poor.
Thought not.
Everything that is vain, narcissistic and demeaning wrapped up in one crispy packet.
Well summed up sir – he is a most disgusting individual, a perfect candidate to headline a BBC show! Defund them and stop paying for their dodgy TV tax, I did.
One of the biggest wanke*s in the country. Mind you, anyone why buys from Primark is also wearing clothes from cheap labour. Remember driving past a large ‘garment’ (their words) factory in Sri Lanka.
The realty is that most clothes sold in the UK are produced in places like Bangladesh, Thailand, Turkey no matter the label.
It’s about time this turd was flushed away.
Which reminds me of the Billy Connolly tale about the turd that wouldn’t be flushed.
I cannot stand Lineker but I would not join in a hue and cry about wages in Bangladesh until I read about the comparative cost of living etc. The workers get these jobs because they are cheaper. Would they be better off without the work?
Ah Gary Lineker, who’s views on anything are akin to a empty crisp packet blowing across a car park