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THE LARGEST PFIZER vaccine delivery to Ireland of 191,800 doses arrived today, the Taoiseach has said.
During Leaders’ Questions in the Dail, Micheál Martin said around 183,000 people were vaccinated last week and 27.5% of the eligible population have received a first dose.
He said the HSE is now working out the logistics of new advice from the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) on the use of the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines, which have both been recommended for people aged 50 and over.
However he said the total number of doses due to arrive in Ireland in the second quarter of the year – some 4.5 million doses – is unchanged.
“There was very good news today in terms of Pfizer/BioNTech, I think the largest ever delivery has arrived, 191,800 Pfizer vaccines have arrived. Pfizer had proven to be particularly reliable,” he said.
The Department of Health today published an update on vaccine deliveries to Ireland. In total 192,000 doses were delivered last week, with 136,890 coming from Pfizer, 19,200 delivery by Moderna and 36,000 supplied by AstraZeneca.
The Taoiseach said the modelling that the taskforce in the HSE have been doing has been based on being able to delivery 450,000 vaccine doses per week by the middle of June.
He said this modelling includes the utilisation of vaccination centres, GPs, and pharmacists in the community.
“The objective is to get as many people vaccinated as we possibly can and, notwithstanding all of the obstacles that have arisen, to keep close to those targets by the end of June,” he said.
He said the HSE is “ready to go at it” as soon as the supplies arrive.
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The promises the Labour made .before the election Will be there downfall . I will never vote Labour again . As for Gilmore Labour Party need a leadership change .the Irish way .
Action are words not near fancy vote gaining points . I would like to see Quinn to take control before its to late.
It’s too late for Labour, too many of their senior Politicians stood by while their Party allowed the low income & poor to be continually pummelled by Govt policies!
They are way beyond saving, with the exception of a complete rollback of Govt cuts & increase to original levels of Child benefit (ain’t going to happen) they are screwed, to simply pretend they are going to stop cuts in these areas in the upcoming budget is insulting & lets face it we know their game & it isn’t fooling us!!
Too late for Labour already but Quinn is definitely not the answer, he’s too closely associated with the champagne socialists who sold us out, he’s got questions to answer over his nephew and then there is the signing of the promise to students before the last election, a promise which like so many others was forgotten when they signed up to FG’s programme for government, one which neither party had a mandate to introduce. The only hope is a new Labour arising out of disaffected ordinary members without any of the DL traitors who are only out for themselves. If even one of the current Labour ministers is in it then it will be doomed.
Here in Drogheda The Labour Party office is ran from The SIPTU office Connolly Hall, it makes me sick to the stomach that they inforce their austerity on the poor with the support of SIPTU and other unions. Gilmore your a waste of space and nothing u can do will save your sorry Ass, as for the rest of The Labour Party tick tock!!
What happens when a politician takes viagra.. they grow taller! Bunch of prix!
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