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Australia’s Covid19 vaccination rate fell another two places to 3rd last on the Federal Department of Health’s own international benchmark in June, C-suite strategy consultants Provocate revealed today.

Provocate’s upcoming 3rd VaxEnomicTM Forecaster shows Australia fell from 10th to 12th of 14 nations in June – overtaken by South Korea and Japan (see Table 1 below). The Federal Government had previously pointed to both as examples of countries Australia was performing better than.

Provocate Managing Director Troy Bilsborough said Australia had now “freefallen” seven places from 5th in April and was “failing against the Federal Department of Health’s own global measure of success”.

Mr Bilsborough – a former senior advisor to the Federal Health & Aged Care Minister – welcomed news National Cabinet would set an official herd immunity target, given there was a difference of 13 million jabs in arms between achieving the highest (95% HI) and lowest (70% HI) rates.

“The world’s reopening while Australia’s locking down. That’s not good for business in anyone’s books.

“We’re concerned the Federal Election guessing game could see Australia’s economy held hostage to political Russian roulette while we wait for the bulk of Pfizer stocks to arrive in October.

“Historically, that’s never good for business confidence – the very thing currently immunising Australia’s economy against its slow vaccination rates and border re-openings.”

Since April, Australia has been overtaken Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, the European Union, South Korean and Japan. Currently only New Zealand and Canada are behind Australia at the same point in their vaccination rollouts, the latter of which is predicted to take over Australia within weeks.

Table 1: Change in Australia’s global standing on vaccination rates based on Australian Department of Health’s ‘International Comparisons at equivalent stages of rollout (vaccinations per 100ppl)’

Rank Country APR-21 Country MAY-21 Country JUN-21
1 UK 20.7 UK 37.1 US        68.40
2 US 16.8 US 35.4 UK        63.50
3 Singapore 11.8 Singapore 31.6 Singapore        58.20
4 Sweden 7.5 Belgium 15.7 South Korea        36.70
5 Australia 7.2 Sweden 15.5 Germany        36.20
6 Belgium 7 EU 15.3 Belgium        35.10
7 EU 6.8 France 15.3 Sweden        35.00
8 Germany 6.8 Germany 15.2 Italy        34.70
9 Italy 6.5 Italy 15.2 EU        34.40
10 France 6 Australia 14 France        33.50
11 South Korea 3.8 NZ 9.8 Japan        29.40
12 NZ 3.5 South Korea 10.7 Australia        29.20
13 Canada 3.1 Canada 7.8 Canada        27.10
14 Japan 1.5 Japan 5.3 NZ        21.10