Australia's coronavirus vaccination campaign started a day earlier than expected yesterday, with an 85 year-old World War Two survivor being the first in the country to receive a COVID vaccine.

Ever since the pandemic began last year, vaccinations have been keenly anticipated as a way of hopefully returning to a more normal life.

But if international modelling is anything to go by, it could be a while longer before things like overseas travel are back.

On today's Coronacast, why vaccination is only the end of the beginning.