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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has slapped down a vaccine “myth” in Australia saying people needed to “get some perspective".

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has shut down suggestions Australia will one day hit 100 per cent vaccination coverage, urging the nation to "get some perspective".

"No country will get to 100 per cent," Mr Morrison told A Current Affair.

"We cannot totally eradicate the virus. No country will get to 100 per cent.

"This is the myth going around the vaccination debate around the world. There is only one country in the world that has two dose vaccination rate higher than 65 per cent and that is Israel."

Mr Morrison said it was clear the nation needed to "get some perspective" and shift its coronavirus focus.

"We need to get some perspective. Other countries are opening up because they have had millions of people who have actually contracted the virus and there is more antibodies in that population than other countries that have been riddled with coronavirus," he said.

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