{"id":9787,"date":"2020-12-27T12:35:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T12:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9787"},"modified":"2020-12-27T12:35:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T12:35:48","slug":"contracts-signed-for-rollout-of-covid-19-vaccine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/27\/contracts-signed-for-rollout-of-covid-19-vaccine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Contracts signed for rollout of COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contracts have been signed with companies to partner with the Australian Government to safely distribute COVID-19 vaccines to all Australians from March next year.<br \/>\nThe contracts cover three vital aspects of the vaccine rollout:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Distribution and logistics\u2014 industry leading providers DHL and Linfox will undertake COVID-19 vaccine distribution.<\/li>\n<li>Data\u2014Accenture will provide tracking of vaccine doses as well as enabling overall program implementation monitoring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, PwC will be the Department of Health\u2019s Program Delivery Partner for the vaccine rollout.<br \/>\nFinalisation of these contracts confirms Australia is on track to achieve a well-ordered, efficient and safe rollout of COVID-19 vaccine. Subject to approvals, the first vaccinations will be provided to health workers and aged care residents from March.<br \/>\nDHL and Linfox will work with the Department of Health to design and operate a national distribution network. They will support vaccination for all, including people in rural, remote and very remote areas and others who are hard to reach.<br \/>\nThey will also be required to track and report the temperature of the vaccine at all times. The required temperature could be 2 to 8 degrees (standard cold chain temperatures) to as low as minus 70, which is needed for the Pfizer vaccine.<br \/>\nPurpose built dry ice containers will be supplied for moving the Pfizer vaccine around Australia, as part of the Government\u2019s global distribution deal with Pfizer.<br \/>\nAs well as transporting the vaccines from the point of acceptance from manufacturers to vaccination administration sites, the logistics partners will be responsible for transport and management of vaccination supplies such as needles, syringes, and personal protective equipment.<br \/>\nData partner Accenture will design, develop, and implement a software solution to enable \u201cpoint in time\u201d visibility of COVID-19 vaccine doses across the delivery chain.<br \/>\nThis will include receipt of the vaccine by health services, vaccination of patients, and subsequent monitoring for adverse reactions.<br \/>\nVaccines will be a critical part of Australia\u2019s ongoing response to COVID-19 and the Australia Government has secured over 117 million doses to cover the Australian population several times over.<br \/>\nVaccines will complement the other vital health measures including social distancing, good hand hygiene, high testing rates and Australians mandatory hotel quarantine regime for international travellers.<br \/>\nOur advice remains that Australia remains on track for first vaccinations in March, and completion of whole of population in 2021.<br \/>\nAustralia\u2019s response to the COVID-19 pandemic remains the envy of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contracts have been signed with companies to partner with the Australian Government to safely distribute COVID-19 vaccines to all Australians from March next year. The contracts cover three vital aspects of the vaccine rollout: Distribution and logistics\u2014 industry leading providers DHL and Linfox will undertake COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Data\u2014Accenture will provide tracking of vaccine doses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/27\/contracts-signed-for-rollout-of-covid-19-vaccine-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Contracts signed for rollout of COVID-19 vaccine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}