This consists of the planned 200m doses plus 50m doses, accelerated from their scheduled delivery later in 2021. Take-upSpeaking at the HSE briefing, the HSE chief executive said that 2.6 million people have received a vaccine dose: 1.6 million first doses and 800,000 second doses. This week, the target will be between 260,000 to 280,000 at 37 mass -vaccination centres. Mr Reid rejected Dáil complaints by rural TDs about long journey times to some vaccination centres, with some Deputies alleging the vaccination rollout was biased towards Dublin. While patients living in rural Ireland have faced longer journeys to vaccination centres, he pointed out that in Dublin and other areas patients can face equally long journeys in bad traffic.

Source: The Irish Times May 27, 2021 08:35 UTC