All nursing home residents, staff should get first vaccine dose by end of month

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Country to receive 40,000 Pfizer vaccines a week in January, February, says Donnelly

has said all nursing home residents and staff should have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by the end of the month.in January and February and that vaccination numbers will be added to the existing data hub which shows daily Covid-19 figures.

The Minister said on Twitter on Saturday that the first vaccines administered this week marked “a hugely important milestone”. “We started with healthcare workers in our hospitals and are now moving into nursing homes,” he said. “By the end of January, we plan to have vaccinated residents and all those working in our 580 nursing homes with the first dose.

 

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End of the month!..... what is the delay? UK ramping up vaccinations from Monday they're already over a million ahead! What is Ireland playing at?

Quite a lot of care-workers refusing to take the vaccine in Ohio. What to do...

Should have............ That's called speculation! What a govt we have!

DonnellyStephen is this supposed to be good enough? Far too slow? Why only 70k doses administered by the end of the month when, by your own maths, 160k doses will have been received (40k per week) ?!?! Never thought I’d say it but bring back Simon Harris !!

They’ll all have at the rate this country are responding to this virus!

Yeah right...!!!! Donnelly has been an awful performer in his portfolio and refuses to be held to account.

Stop talking about it then and JUST FUCKIN DO IT 👍🏻

Jesus, Donnelly splitting atoms here 🤣

End of the month are you bloody administering them individually yourself ? Why is it taking so long ?

Where is this guy. He’s a disaster.

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