The UK will send four million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced, as his country raced to halt a deadly virus outbreak.
Mr Morrison said the planes delivering Pfizer vaccine doses were "on the tarmac" in the UK and would deliver "four million doses of hope" within weeks.
More than half the country's 25 million people are under stay at home orders, with Sydney, Melbourne and the national capital Canberra in prolonged lockdowns.
New South Wales reported its worst day of the pandemic, with a record 1,431 cases and 12 new deaths. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned residents to brace for a spike in numbers as the next two weeks will "likely to be our worst in terms of the number of cases".