Coronavirus: Where Australia’s vaccine rollout went wrong

With just 7.2 per cent fully vaccinated, the national rollout continues to lag. Here are the 17 issues that have caused Australia to fall behind other nations.

It’s been likened to The Hunger Games by NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard due to a lack of supply that has left Australians “chasing” jabs.

With just 7.2 per cent of the population fully vaccinated and about eight million doses administered, Australia’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout continues to lag behind other developed nations.

From botched contracts to the banning of shipments of vaccines from Europe to Australia, the program was beset with problems from its inception.

Vaccine hesitancy, compounded by changing medical advice around the Astra-Zeneca vaccine, has also slowed down the program.

Here are the 17 problems that have contributed to Australia’s troubled national vaccine rollout.