Keeping up with numbers of Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout

The single biggest and most complex vaccine campaign in the nation’s history enters its second stage next week.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has promised to ramp up the delivery of vaccines as the nation prepared to kick-off Phase 1B of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout from March 22. More than 6 million Australians will be eligible to receive the jab under the Phase 1B plans.

  Health Minister Greg Hunt

The data on this page tracks how each of the states and territories is progressing in this mammoth task, as well as how Australia compares to the rest of the world.

As of March 14 — three weeks into the vaccination campaign — more than 164,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been delivered across Australia.

More than 78,000 doses were delivered in the week to March 14, up from less than 53,000 the previous week and just over 33,700 in the first week of the rollout, according to the latest figures from the federal Department of Health.

In January, the government said its initial target for the start of the rollout was 80,000 doses a week — roughly 11,500 a day.

The longer-term target is to fully vaccinate all adults (about 20 million people) by the end of October, which means rapidly ramping up to some 200,000 doses per day.

This equates to a daily rate of around 0.77 doses per 100 people, which would outpace the peak rates in both the US (0.55 per 100) and the UK (0.65 per 100), according to international figures.

The government fell drastically short of its target for the end of February, delivering just 53 per cent of the 63,140 doses allocated for that first week.

It will need to significantly boost vaccination rates if it hopes to achieve its target of “at least… 4 million doses” by early April (originally end of March).