The vast majority of those aged 70 and over will be able to get the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines directly from their own GP after details of the roll-out plan were finalised between the HSE and the IMO last night.
The vaccines will have to be used up within five days of leaving the deep freeze vaccine storage facility in Dublin where they will be kept.
The deliveries will start with the GP practices that have the largest number of over 85-year-olds, working down through the smaller practices over the following weeks, before continuing on to the next age groups.
The top 70% of the almost 1,400 GP practices in Ireland have more than 200 over 70s on the books and so between them cover the vast majority of the group within the