Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that Friday was "the biggest day so far" in the vaccine roll-out. The Health Service Executive has said that almost 42,000 Covid-19 vaccines were administered on Friday, the highest daily total to date.

New figures from the HSE show that there were 30,919 first doses issued to people and 10,979 second doses. It took the total number of vaccines administered to 1,359,921.

It means 966,611 people, which is 25.7% of the eligible adult population of around 3.75 million, have now received at least one dose.

While 393,310 people or 10.4% have been given their two jabs and are fully vaccinated. The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine accounted for almost 75% of the vaccine doses administered, with just under 21% AstraZeneca

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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