The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is today expected to decide the terms on which the vaccine will be licensed. It could err on the side of caution given that only 5.7pc people involved in trials of the vaccine were over 65. Germany took the lead yesterday in advance of approval and said the vaccine would only be given to people aged between 18 and 64. HSE chief Paul Reid said yesterday that up to Sunday, 148,500 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine had been administered. AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot said the company had less data than other drugmakers on the elderly because it started vaccinating older people later.

Source: The Herald January 29, 2021 02:26 UTC