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By David Thompson
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The Belfast Trust has apologised after offering Covid-19 vaccines to community and voluntary groups ahead of other front-line workers.
A letter, obtained by The Nolan Show, was sent to organisations in the community and voluntary sector, which are in partnership with the trust.
The only criteria was that staff were client-facing .
This included organisations in the arts sector, community groups, relationship counselling and childcare services.
The trust was unable to confirm how many vaccines had been given out to those now ineligible.
Department intervention
The letter was sent on 21 January.
A week later, the trust limited the offer to staff working with physiologically vulnerable adults , for example those with respiratory conditions.
Professor Mike Holmes, who leads York’s largest Covid vaccination centre on the former Askham Bar Park & Ride site, writes his third in a series of columns in The Press today: As we continue with the vaccination programme, we’ve remembered that it is exactly one year since the first cases of coronavirus in the UK were identified in York. For the last year healthcare professionals throughout the country have been focused on caring for the population as best they can. The population has had to deal with a different way of living, with restrictions and with the prospect of being affected in some way by this horrible disease.
Vaccine roll-out in Northern Ireland remarkable , says Dr Alan Stout
Over 10% of the population here have now been vaccinated
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