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Doctors warn on vaccine hesitancy in Australia

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Australia's main medical body has warned the country's residents are "sitting ducks" for Covid-19, as business leaders call for the international border to be reopened faster despite a sluggish national vaccination drive.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) said it was worried that many Australians were delaying getting vaccinated because of the country's success in stamping out the virus, and urged authorities to roll out a more effective advertising campaign.

Australia's federal government budget assumes vaccination of the country's 20 million adult population will be completed by the end of year.

The rollout has speeded up in recent weeks - around a third of the 3.3 million doses administered so far were given in the last three

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