ATAGI previously said the mRNA vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech should be preferred for people aged under 60. It now says people in that age group living in an 'outbreak' area and unable to access that vaccine should have the option of the adenovirus viral vector vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and The University of Oxford.

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