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By Padraig Collins For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 12:36 AEDT, 22 December 2021 | Updated: 14:30 AEDT, 22 December 2021
A new brand of the Covid-19 vaccine could be available to Australians within a month as the nation continues to battle a surge of cases.
Health Minister Greg Hunt announced on Wednesday the Novavax vaccine should be available in January, and it could be the one to convince the vaccine hesitant to roll up their sleeves for a jab.
The Novavax shot, which has just been approved by the European Union, is a traditional protein-based vaccine, rather than an mRNA vaccine such Pfizer and Moderna, or the AstraZeneca vaccine which uses an adenovirus vector.