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Air Corps Flies Vaccines to Four Offshore Islands for Over 70s
20th February 2021
Special delivery - An Irish Air Corps helicopter crew delivers vaccines to the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway
Credit: Screenshot: Air Corps
Four west coast islands received Air Corps helicopter delivery of Covid-19 vaccinations yesterday as part of a plan to vaccinate all residents over 70 years of age together.
As
Times. ie reports today, general practitioners on the Aran Islands and the Donegal island of Arranmore welcomed the move which allows more vulnerable residents to be vaccinated on the islands.
Fears had been expressed about the impact on elderly and vulnerable islanders who might have been otherwise forced to make several ferry journeys to mainland health centres when vaccines became available.
Island residents should be given group vaccinations in their communities rather than on the mainland, Éamon Ó Cuív has said.Ó Cuív, the Fianna Fáil TD and former Gaeltacht and islands minister, said