Australia hopes to get its first batches of a potential COVID-19 vaccine in January, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, as the number of new day by day diseases in the nation’s virus hotspot tumbled to a 10-week low.

Morrison said his government has struck a deal with CSL Ltd (CSL.AX) to make two vaccines – one created by rival AstraZeneca (AZN.L) and Oxford University, and another created in CSL’s own labs with the University of Queensland.

“Australia needs some hope,” Morrison told reporters in Canberra. “Today, we take another significant step to protect the health of Australians against the coronavirus pandemic.”

Wellbeing Minister Greg Hunt said researchers leading the advancement of the two vaccines have exhorted that ongoing proof proposes both will offer “multi-year protection”.

Morrison said CSL is relied upon to deliver 3.8 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is right now going through late-stage clinical preliminaries in Britain, Brazil and South Africa, in January and February one year from now.

AstraZeneca’s applicant, AZD1222, is seen as a frontrunner in the global race to deliver an effective vaccine to combat the virus.

Australia had declared in August that it intended to purchase AZD1222, alongside an arrangement of purpose from CSL to make it. That plan was thrown into some uncertainty when CSL reported without further ado a while later that it would organize the manufacture of its own vaccine.

Morrison’s declaration on Monday that Australia would likewise buy the CSL drug if preliminaries demonstrated effective had all the earmarks of being the summit of an arrangement to get the two immunizations over the line.

The CSL immunization is because of start second stage clinical preliminaries in late 2020, which means the most punctual it could hit the market would be mid-2021.

Should the two antibodies pass clinical preliminaries, Australia will burn through A$1.7 billion ($1.24 billion) for a sum of almost 85 million portions, Morrison said.

The arrangement came as Australia detailed its most minimal one-day ascend in new COVID-19 cases since June 26, with 45 diseases in the previous 24 hours, 41 of which were recorded in Victoria state.

Australia’s second most crowded state has been the focal point of a subsequent wave, and now represents about 75% of the nation’s 26,320 cases and 90% of its 762 passings.

The southeastern state on Sunday broadened a hard lockdown in its capital Melbourne until Sept. 28 as the day by day contamination rates had declined more gradually than trusted.