Article 5GSVB Australia news live: Covid committee demands vaccination timetable; two consent videos removed

Australia news live: Covid committee demands vaccination timetable; two consent videos removed

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Josh Taylor and Matilda Boseley (earlier)
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8.49am BST

That is where we will leave the blog for Tuesday. Thanks for following along. Here's what we learned today:

8.14am BST

The Therapeutic Goods Administration boss, John Skerritt, just told the committee there were very few Australians trying to buy vaccines on the dark web, but it was mostly just scams:

There's been a small amount of activity on the dark web and this is more individuals who fear if they pay a certain number of Bitcoins they can have two doses of Pfizer turn up in an esky on their doorstep. It turns out many of those cases simply lose their money. Either nothing has turned up. We don't think there's hundreds of thousands of Australians doing that.

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