A temporary exemption and deadline extensions for workers required to receive three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were also declared.

Australian Government will start rolling out the Pfizer vaccine to 5 to 11-year-olds from 10 January 2022.

Australia has sufficient supplies of booster shots available, with contracts in place for 85 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, 15 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, and 51 million doses of the Novavax vaccine.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said "India scripted history" and expressed his gratitude to doctors, nurses, and all those who worked to achieve this feat.

This would be good news for many Indian-origin citizens of Australia, Canada, the US, the UK, and other countries who do not have an OCI card and rely on tourist visas to travel to India.

A lot of parents are still contemplating whether to send their child to school or not as per the roadmap announced.

“All workers – in Melbourne and regional Victoria – on the Authorised Worker list will require their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by Friday, 15 October in order to continue working on site."

Modest easing to restrictions from 11.59 pm Friday, 17 September in lockdown areas of metropolitan Melbourne and Ballarat

It now seems unlikely that NSW – and maybe even Victoria – will be able to suppress COVID down to zero before any vaccination target is reached.

According to the Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Dr Ashutosh Sharma, Modi government's COVID-19 immunization plan to vaccinate all Indains by December...