Workers in healthcare and hotel quarantine first in line as Australia's vaccine rollout scheme brought forward

Federal Health Minister has revealed the rollout schedule for a COVID-19 vaccine has been brought forward slightly.

A Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer and Germanys BioNTech has been found to be more than 90 per cent effective Source: Igor Kralj/PIXSELL/AAP

The federal government has brought forward the rollout of a vaccine for COVID-19 by a couple of weeks to early March.

The previous timetable was for late March.

"In the same way that [medical] advice has allowed us to bring forward the time from the first half of the year to late March, and now early March, we will be guided by the medical advice," Health Minister Greg Hunt told The Daily Telegraph in an interview.

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