More than 200,000 third doses of a targeted 1.4 million have been administered so far
How many people have received boosters so far?
About 142,000 people among the 161,000 people aged 80 and over have received their doses through GPs and the HSE aims to reach the remainder this month. Booster doses for the over-65s in long-term care facilities is substantially complete with about 23,000 doses being administered to the estimated 25,000 to 30,000 in this group. About 48,000 people among the 100,000-strong immunocompromised group have received third doses.
The HSE expects them to be substantially completed within four to five weeks. People in their 60s, estimated to number about 475,000, are being offered their third doses from this week and will be called to appointments by text message. This group is receiving doses through vaccination centres and will be completed by the end of December.
managed to suppress a fourth wave of coronavirus infections last summer, driven by the more transmissible Delta variant, by giving a third booster dose to people aged 12 and older along with public-health measures.
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