Pharmacies will be playing a role in vaccinations from early June, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said the move would help with vaccination roll out. The vaccine registration portal will open for people aged 40 to 44 from this Wednesday.
Mr Donnelly said that those aged 44 will be able to register on Wednesday, with 43 year olds able to register on Thursday, those aged 42 on Friday, 41 on Saturday and 40 year olds on Sunday. More than over one million Covid vaccine doses have been administered in May, taking the total number administered so far to 2.7 million. Half of the adult population has now had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
Due to the Cyber Attack on the HSE computer system data on new Covid cases is not available in detail. There were 378 new cases reported yesterday, there are 98 people in hospital with Covid and 35 of these people are in intensive care.
