Mr Hunt expects the first million doses of the Moderna vaccine will arrive in Australia next month subject to final approval by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

And from today younger Aussies can start getting the Pfizer jab as Sydney looking no closer to ending weeks of COVID-19 lockdown and the number of deaths continuing to rise.

About 220,000 children aged between 12 to 15 years with underlying medical conditions, and Indigenous and remote community children will now have access to Pfizer.

In Sydney a 21,000-seat stadium will, for the next week, serve as a hub for Year 12 students from eight coronavirus-hit council areas in western and southwestern Sydney to get jabbed.

Meanwhile in Melbourne you don't even have to get out of the car as the nation's first drive-through COVID-19 vaccine begins operation.

And all this lockdown talk is having an impact on Prime Minister Scott Morrison's popularity.

As the lockdown was lifted in south-east Queensland, Cairns entered its first day of a three-day lockdown.

The state recorded nine new cases on Sunday including an unvaccinated taxi driver who was infectious in the Cairns community for 10 days.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said she hoped three days in lockdown for Cairns and Yarrabah would be enough to evaluate the risk of infections spreading.

Australia's emissions reduction pledges do not go far enough to help protect its Pacific Island neighbours from rising sea levels, a new Greenpeace report finds.

The report, Te Mana, o te Moana 2021 analysed each country's climate commitments as part of the Paris Agreement and found the world was on course for up to 3.9 degrees of heating.

National emissions reduction pledges like Australia's would lock in between two and three degrees of global heating, the report noted.

This news comes as fires rage across Greece, forcing mass evacuations, and also now in Italy where firefighting conditions are set to worsen with a heatwave on its way.

The Tokyo Olympics closed behind closed doors with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach calling them "Games of hope, solidarity and peace" amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bach closed the Games and invited the world to the Games of the 33rd Olympiad in Paris 2024.

Before that, of course, there's the Paralympics. They begin on August 24.