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Stephen Donnelly has announced that the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines in Ireland is likely to be postponed until the end of December.
The fantastic news will come as a huge boost to national morale heading into Christmas.
The Health Minister said that our new “flexible” vaccine launch plan could start during Christmas week after it emerged this afternoon that EU approval is accelerating.
The EMA (European Medicines Agency) announced today that the decision date for the approval of the vaccine is brought forward from December 29 to 21.
This means that countries will be able to start implementing Pfizer / BioNTech if approved, as expected, starting next Monday, December 21.
And Donnelly has said that Ireland will be ready to move fast.
The Health Minister made his comments at the launch of the government’s vaccine deployment plan this afternoon.
He said, “We have a plan … that plan is flexible … and initial implementation could start before the New Year.”
Donnelly added: “If the EMA meets on December 21 and concludes positive on the Pfizer vaccine, it will be several more days before authorization is granted, possibly on December 23.”
“So it would take several days, possibly a week, before distribution started here.”
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