The Government has today revealed a detailed plan of how its Covid-19 vaccine strategy will be implemented in the weeks and months ahead.
Here is all you need to know about what happens next: Who can avail of vaccines first? The highest priority groups, those over the age of 65 living in long-term care facilities and frontline healthcare workers in direct patient contact, will be first to receive the vaccine.
Next in line for the vaccine will be those aged over 70 – of these, the 85 plus age group will be first, followed by those aged 80 to 84; then 75 to 79-year-olds and finally people aged 70 to 74.
Other healthcare workers will be next in line for inoculation, followed by those in the 65 to 69 age bracket, prioritising people with