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IRELAND’S VACCINE ROLLOUT hit another milestone today, with more than 10% of the population having received at least their first dose of a Covid jab.
As of Thursday, 18 March, a total of 478,725 first doses of the three vaccines currently used in Ireland have been administered, representing 10.05% of people in Ireland.
175,526 second doses have been administered, meaning 3.69% of the population are now fully inoculated.
The focus of the vaccine rollout is currently on people aged over 70 and those between 16 and 69 with a medical condition that puts them at very high risk of severe disease from Covid-19.
The roll-out has been beset with uncertainty over supplies of the jabs, but falls within or above the European average of doses administered per capita and is largely complete among staff and residents of care homes, as well as frontline healthcare workers.
The figures are published with a two-day lag.
The estimate that 10% of the people have received their first dose is based on the 2016 Census, frequently used by health officials when calculating figures like these.
A more recent estimate of the population from the CSO would place this figure at 9.6% of the population.
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He’ll be out by the weekend.Otherwise the cartel will cause havoc.
Washington accuses the cartel of exploiting the opioid epidemic and introducing fentanyl yet they created the market with a series of laws making it near impossible for doctors to prescribe opioids. The rug was pulled from chronic pain patients and anyone with a prescription opioid addiction overnight. In the years following, the black market predictably exploded and just as predictably, so have the deaths which continue to rise year on year at a staggering rate. This is what happens when we create unregulated markets for criminals gangs to run and profit from. At some point we’re going to have to grow up and accept that the war on drugs is a failure on every conceivable level. Drugs won and huge numbers are dying while we wait for politicians to catch up. It’s obscene and it’s criminal.
@Declan Doherty: if you have not seen it, watch the Tv series ‘dopesick’ starring Michael Keaton. It is very good drama about opioid addiction
@James Beattie: Been meaning to watch it. Is it on Netflix?
This war on drugs is lost……..let’s have limited legitimacy and put this cartels out a business..over to you joe,America are the main buyers legalisation has worked when tried.something has to be done to stop the 100,000 + death’s
Arrest the rich who are using and you’ll stop the flow
@Ian James Burgess, it would cost too much. I see Prince Harry admitted taking it, will he be arrested or locked up.
Getting murdered for not singing at The Mouses wedding!!!! What would he do to Daniel O’Donnell ?
@Pete O’Reilly: ask him to fix his boiler
@kevin mc cormack: Daniel is not gas certified Kevin. Me granny only told me yesterday.
@SPQH, then why not change the law?
@Stephen Walshe, then he’ll be replaced by another smelly rat
Smelly little rat got caught he should be hung in public.
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