Almost five thousand doses of the Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines for Covid-19 are to be administered to GPs and their practice nurses today and tomorrow.
It comes ahead of the start of the community vaccination programme for the over-70s on Monday. One hundred and eight large GP practices will then be given twelve thousand doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be administered during the coming week to people over the age of 85.
The Chief Executive of the HSE Paul Reid described it as a milestone in the vaccination roll-out programme. Today, 1,800 second doses of the Moderna vaccine will be administered to GPs at four vaccination centres in Dublin, Portlaoise, Galway and Sligo.