From Covid-19 booster vaccines to the new variant Omicron, here are five things we learned from the latest briefing by the Health Service Executive: Over 880,000 booster doses administered The HSE briefing heard that Ireland is in the top five of European Union countries that is administering Covid-19 booster or third dose vaccines per head of population.
The organisation's Chief Executive, Paul Reid, said that so far more than 880,000 such doses have been administered to date.
He also said that there is a continuing presentation of first and second doses of the vaccines. 6.5% of adults not fully vaccinated - Reid Paul Reid told the briefing that around 6.5% of the adult population are not fully vaccinated against Covid-19.