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Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has signed a regulation that allows the Covid-19 vaccine to be administered in Ireland.
After signing the regulations last night, Donnelly said he was “delighted” to report that the first delivery of the Pfizer / BioNTech jab will arrive in Ireland on St. Stephen’s Day.
The first Covid vaccine to be administered in the Republic is expected to take place on Wednesday, December 30.
This comes after a draft of the HSE schedule said the vaccination process will begin in a small number of nursing homes on January 11.
The Pfizer / BioNTech injection is given in two doses, approximately three weeks apart.
According to the draft HSE, smaller nursing homes with fewer than 30 residents will be able to be vaccinated in a single day by a team of four vaccinators who will then return three weeks late to administer the second dose.
People 65 and older living in long-term care facilities will be the first to receive the vaccine, followed by front-line health care workers.
In the new year, the government has said that Ireland will receive 40,000 doses each week during January and February.
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