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The number of Covid-19 vaccination doses administered will surpass the 750,000 mark this weekend as deployment continues at GP-operated vaccination centers at Munster University of Technology in Cork and Merlin Park in Galway.
In addition, the five walk-in testing centers will continue to operate for asymptomatic people in Dublin and Tullamore.
A total of 3,850 people attended the tests at those centers during the last two days.
On Friday, another 20 Covid-related deaths were reported to the Health Department along with 584 new cases of the disease.
This week, as of Thursday, approximately 76,000 doses had been administered.
That figure includes about 23,000 AstraZeneca doses held up during the European Medicines Agency security check last week.
Yesterday there were more vaccinations and another 2,000 people over 75 will be vaccinated by GPs in the Cork and Galway centers this weekend.
The five Covid-19 testing centers with temporary access for asymptomatic people will operate this weekend in Grangegorman, Blanchardstown, Irishtown and Tallaght in Dublin, and Tullamore in County Offaly.
Of the 1,700 people who were tested at these centers on Thursday, 1.34% tested positive for the virus.
Meanwhile, the controversial AstraZeneca facility in Halix in the Netherlands, which can supply five million vaccines per month, as well as the Pfizer-BioNTech plant in Marburg in Germany, with a goal of delivering 1 billion doses per year, They were approved by the European Medicines Agency. yesterday.
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