The Department of Health has been notified of 374 new cases of Covid-19
There are 99 people with the virus in hospital, 35 in ICU, which is unchanged from yesterday. It comes as Health Service Executive CEO Paul Reid said Ireland's vaccination programme is "progressing really well".
"Certainly by tomorrow, 50% of the population will have received dose one and almost 20% are fully vaccinated with dose two." Speaking on RTÉ's This Week programme, he said that, because supply lines could be hard to predict, he could not give a definite answer as to how many people will be fully vaccinated when restrictions are eased further in July.Mr Reid said 88% of cases last week were in the under-45 age bracket and "there were no outbreaks in nursing homes". Almost 100% of the population over 80 have now been vaccinated, 96% of the 70 to 79 cohort and 90% in the 60 to 69 group "that is a huge take-up," Mr Reid said. Any change to intervals between vaccine doses was down to advice from the National Immunisation Advisory Committee , he added. The gap between AstraZeneca doses has been brought back from 16 weeks to 12 weeks, as recommended by NIAC. Asked about vaccines for children, Mr Reid said it would depend on how the Government approached that but the HSE's current Covid vaccine programme goes down as far as 16-year-olds.In Northern Ireland, 63 new cases of the virus have been confirmed, bringing the total there to 122,638.
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