Earlier, he sat next to 84 year old Jane Malice Shock, the first person among a handful of Australians being injected at a medical center in Sydney.

The two shared a funny moment as they attempted to hold up a V for vaccine hand gesture.

So from tomorrow, tens of thousands of Australians over the course of the next week can confidently come forward from those key priority groups that have been defined to ensure that we move into this next phase of how would be preparing and dealing with covert 19.

Up to four million Australians are expected to receive the vaccine developed by FISA and Bio and Tech by March.

The vaccine is voluntary.

Older Australians, H care staff and frontline workers will be the first in line to be vaccinated.

Australia aims to inoculate the vast majority off his 25 million citizens by October.

That comes as the government pledged a public campaign so people turn up for a vaccine shot.