Some 37,000 over-70s are due to get their first doses of vaccinations against Covid-19 next week. The Government has set a target of 84,166 Covid vaccines to be administered during that period.
As part of a daily briefing to ministers on the vaccine roll-out from the Department of Health, Cabinet members were told this morning that this will include: - 11,500 for those in long term residential care, including 500 first doses - 25,666 frontline health workers - 37,000 over-70s - 10,000 with underlying health conditions.
The chief clinical officer of the HSE Colm Henry has said that almost half a million vaccines have been administered here to date, with 82,000 vaccines administered this week instead of the planned 100,000.