Up to 40 big vaccination centres will be put in place across the State to administer Covid-19 vaccines, according to Health Service Executive chief Paul Reid. However, the HSE chief executive promised that older people who are immobile at home – and who could not get to proposed vaccination centres – “will not be left behind”. Separately, the HSE on Friday set out new guidelines on the sequence in which healthcare workers should be vaccinated in the weeks ahead. It said the AstraZeneca vaccines would be administered to frontline healthcare workers as supplies arrived in the State. The next group listed are healthcare workers who deal with unscheduled care patients/service users in a semi-controlled environment on a regular basis.

Source: The Irish Times February 07, 2021 14:48 UTC