The Covid-19 vaccination roll-out continues this weekend with GP vaccination clinics in Cork and Galway delivering second dose vaccinations to more than 1,500 people aged over 75.
In addition, the Health Service Executive will continue to make calls to house-bound patients over the age of 70 with a view to completing the vaccination of this group over the next two to three weeks.
The HSE online facility for booking vaccination appointments opens to 63-year-olds from this morning. Meanwhile, a panel of advisers to the US Center for Disease Prevention and Control voted last night to recommend that the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine should be resumed in the United States after weighing up its links to very rare but potentially deadly