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Public can have real confidence in the excellence and thoroughness of the Covid-19 vaccine approval process
Statement from the Chief Executive of the Health Products Regulatory Authority in Ireland
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15 Dec 2020
Nurse Joanna Sloane was the first person on the island of Ireland to be vaccinated when she got the jab at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast );
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The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is the national authority responsible for the safety and effectiveness of medicines in Ireland.
Many of these medicines, including vaccines, are authorised across Europe by the European Medicines Agency - the EMA. It does this by bringing together scientific expertise from all the national agencies, including ourselves in the HPRA. This means the public can have real confidence in the excellence and thoroughness of the approval process. This approach combines the best available scientific expertise within Europe, in a very open and transparent way, so as to e
Over 14 million Covid-19 vaccine doses will be delivered to Ireland at a cost of 112 million euro.
A report by a task force responsible for the rollout will be presented to ministers this morning - which will include large vaccination centres, and how it will be distributed.
It comes as the Health Products Regulatory Authority urges members of the public who have questions about the shot to use reliable sources for their information.
CEO Dr Lorraine Nolan says it s understandable that people would have questions:
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Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 11:17 Updated: Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 20:31 Dr Lorraine Nolan, chief executive, Health Products Regulatory Authority, and Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer, Department of Health, at a Covid -19 update press conference at the Department of Health. Photograph: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin
There will be no “lowering of the bar” in the approvals process for new Covid-19 vaccines, the head of Ireland’s drugs regulator has said.
No regulatory body, here or abroad, will make the new vaccines available “without having full confidence that they are safe and that they work,” Dr Lorraine Nolan, chief executive of the Health Products Regulatory Authority told a National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) briefing on Monday.
Here s what ll happen when you go to get your Covid-19 vaccine
For the larger roll-out, the vaccines will be administered in large vaccination centres and also GP surgeries and pharmacies. By Michelle Hennessy Tuesday 15 Dec 2020, 3:25 PM Dec 15th 2020, 3:25 PM 23,863 Views 27 Comments
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THE GOVERNMENT HAS outlined how the vaccination process will work when a mass roll-out happens in 2021.
The initial roll-out, planned for early in the New Year, will be limited to particular groups.
The focus at the start of the vaccination programme will be on adults over the age of 65 who are residents of long-term care facilities and frontline healthcare workers in direct patient contact roles, including vaccinators. Those aged 70 and older will be next, starting with over 85s.