Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the Cyberattack, Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out and Covid-19 Restrictions in Maternity Hospitals: Health Service Executive

Mr. Paul Reid:

Some 750 pharmacists are involved in the programme. As Mr. McCallion has said, the Janssen supply has gone out to those. They are specifically focused on people aged over 50 who have not at this stage taken up the offer of the vaccine. We estimate approximately 150,000 people aged 50 and over have not. That vaccine is specifically for those people. The process in the pharmacies is such that they need to book a few people together before opening a vial. They need to arrange appointments for about five people at a time. We have early indications of a reasonable uptake. We do not have full numbers just yet. To answer the Deputy's question specifically, it is for the over-50s who have not availed of the vaccine to date and who have not registered on the portal.

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