The UK should help Ireland out with vaccines as it has purchased 407 million doses, said Dr Gabriel Scally. The President of Epidemiology and Public Health at the UK’s Royal Society of Medicine said Ireland should be making relationships with the vaccine companies and asking the UK for help. "I think it’d be very beneficial, the last thing the UK wants is Ireland lagging behind and having a lot more cases. When told that the government is working on having 18 countries on the mandatory hotel quarantine list, Dr Scally said “that’s no good”. He added: “The variants are on their way and the variants move far faster than the Irish government.”Read MoreOnline Editors

Source: Irish Independent February 15, 2021 14:15 UTC