Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said it is planned that all those working and living in Ireland's 580 nursing homes - around 70,000 people - will receive their first Covid-19 vaccine dose by the end of this month.
The minister added: "That will enable us to vaccinate more people. We have ordered/pre-ordered circa 7.6 million doses from Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. We have also pre-ordered from other manufacturers." The roll-out of vaccines began in Dublin last Tuesday, with a 79-year-old Dublin woman the first person to be administered the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at St James's Hospital.
The minister appealed to the public to follow "the letter and spirit" of the current guidelines and said the Government wants to get children safely back to school and will follow whatever advice is given to them.
Mr MacSharry said he wanted to know whether it was money, complacency or ineptitude which has led to a situation in which a vaccine manufactured in the EU was not available in a large supply to member states. Deputy Cullinane said that "as tough as it is" people need to follow the public health guidelines and he called for the Government to do more to support businesses and individuals.
Don't take the vaccine, it's genetic engineering and very dangerous technology. All for a Virus with a 99.98% survival rate as per the CDC. It's no a pandemic, it's a case-demic. The RT-PCR test is not capable of verifying any infection.
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Ah so gone from vaccinated to first dose by end of month. Israel has vaccinated over 1,000,000 already with similar sized population. Get your finger out or 2021 will be a right off.
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We need to vaccinating 1000000 a week to get the country done in a year. And we are planning 78000 a month.
Israel is vaccinating 150k people A DAY.
It makes no difference how many people receive the 'first dose' ...there needs to be proper implementation for both doses!
They need to come out and explain why it will take so long , it’s just not good enough
At that rate we will have 840k vaccinated by Christmas.. we have a population of what 5.5million
That’s simply not quick enough
Don't rush lads!
By the end of the month! 😳
At this pace Ireland will be a quarinteene zone for 5 years.
It's ok lads, take your time. It's not like we're fighting a pandemic, lockdowns, large unemployment, economic collapse and the deteriorating mental health of your people. It fine. Slow and steady wins the race 👍.....
Meanwhile, Israel has vaccinated 12%, or over 1 million, of its population. NI has vaccinated over 80% of care home residents at least once. The EMA's delay in approving the vaccine is an absolute indictment of the EU institutions. This delay will cost many European lives.
Why a month? Absolutely no sense of urgency all talk, all sound bytes but absolutely zero action as usual. The most vulnerable need to be protected immediately.
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This process needs to be sped up. We’ll be under tight restrictions forever if vaccinations continues at this rate
What if staff refuse to take the vaccine
Piss poor rollout
Dats to slow
Probably more lies from DonnellyStephen As taoiseach we don’t have that many doses and won’t for a long while Rgds An Taoiseach Nua 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
Testing an experimental Vaccine on the elderly first, they are the lab rats of this experiment.
According to NYMag 'waits (in the US) for ultracold freezers that could extend shelf life to about six months (from time of production). That means that... this first batch of vaccine is set to expire in late January'. Is the same true here? See
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And then our dear government will extend lockdown. Couldn't possibly let humans out for Valentines day. Then You'll extend it into March. Couldn't possibly 'allow' a st Patrick's day even with beloved vaccine well in circulation. Just give up and die basically. Live with virus?
We will have 160,000 vaccines by then? What is happening with the other 90,000?
Ridiculous that this roll out is so slow. Why are we always last
Embarrassing management. We need a new leadership
Well if they want to take it that is
And the second dose?
What happening with the end of the week ffs whats the hold up
When will they get the second one? Will it be the 12 week delay NHS England are talking about.
Given the levels currently in the community, that will be too little too late for many. What are the contingency plans to get nursing homes to the point where all those living and working are actually immunised?
DonnellyStephen a month? Why? Should be few days!
Approximately 700k people over 65 in ireland. How long will it take to vaccinate these type of numbers?
Meanwhile, in Israel, they have now delivered 1 million doses ... hope HSE are taking learnings from that ...
We’ll see 👀
So they are going to kill the pensions and they have no choice.
Hey Guess what Let's join the fight here too
Way too slow! Was have the HSE management been doing for last 6 months?
God!! There taking there time!! Are They Saveing Lives!! Or are they Saving Vaxines, I ask you!!
We knew that from news reports on 25 Dec 2020. Please keep questioning them about what we still don't know, rather than letting them get away with repeatedly telling us the same things we've already been told.
This whole thing is a shambles, nobody seems to know what's going on, Taoiseach blaming UK variant, Nphet says it's not, cases building up because machine cant count over 2000, vaccine rollout strategy and delivery numbers a huge secret, absolute shambles
They should be working 7 days a week. This is ridiculously slow. Embarrassing
WHY will it take until the end of the month Honestly I don’t understand the 🐌 pace?
Well we wouldn't like to be over working the HSE staff members now would we.
EU and HSE have fumbled the handling of the vaccine rollout. EU commission needs serious overhaul. Also most of the working population of the country is returning to their workplace on Monday morning when we are now at the worst stage in terms of the spread: this is insanity.
That’s about 2.5K a day. Hopefully stock will ramp up quickly...
Great news openthepubs
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