Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has said he has accepted a recommendation to waive the 15-minute wait period after a person is vaccinated.It comes after GPs said that they could vaccinated more people if the observation time after administering a shot was removed.Asked on the Six One News if he had asked the National Immunisation Advisory Committee for a ruling on the issue, Donnelly confirmed he had.
"I'm delighted to be able to say that just in the last hour, NIAC has come back to the Chief Medical Officer," he said."For our GPs and our pharmacists, what they signalled was that it would be very very useful in terms of being able to vaccinate more people. "It's something we looked at again with the impending threat of Omicron to just get as many people boosted as possible."As of 8am on Wednesday, 470 patients with the virus are hospitalised, of which 105 are in intensive care units.
The Department of Health also stated there has been a total of 5,835 deaths related to Covid-19 notified in Ireland, including 47 deaths newly notified in the past week since last Wednesday.notified in Ireland. This includes 47 deaths newly notified in the past week .It confirmed as well that 24 additional cases of the Omicron variant have been detected, bringing to 42 the total number of cases that have been identified following whole genome sequencing.
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