Frontline healthcare workers and nursing home residents will be vaccinated first, he confirmed. “My focus in the first instance is getting our frontline healthcare workers protected; getting into nursing homes, getting those most vulnerable protected because...then we can have a different conversation about opening up,” he said. The likely initial vaccine range is:Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine: It is already being administered in the United Kingdom and United States. Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine: This is likely to get approval in the UK this month with rollout there from early 2021. Priority listAfter frontline healthcare workers and nursing home residents are vaccinated, people over 70; other healthcare workers not in direct patient contact, people aged 65 to 69 and other “key workers” will be vaccinated in that order.

Source: The Irish Times December 22, 2020 20:26 UTC