Australia flags mass inoculation amid COVID-19 vaccine turmoil

SYDNEY - Australia's national cabinet will begin meeting twice a week from Monday to help mobilise the country's battle against COVID-19 as authorities consider mass vaccinations to ramp up its coronavirus inoculation efforts.

The federal government and states will discuss setting up mass vaccination centres from as early as June for people above 50, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, when the country would have moved to its next immunisation phase. "We will have AstraZeneca vaccines that we believe we might be able to ramp up the pace of vaccination for those aged between 50 and 70. That's millions of Australians," Morrison told reporters in Perth.