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Towards the end of last week, the HSE said that over 13,000 doses had been administered.
Vaccine supplies are an issue. Yesterday, the European Commission extended its contract to purchase another 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BionTech vaccine. This will double the EU order, but the second batch will not begin to be available until the second half of the year. There have been many questions this week as to whether the Commission bought too few vaccines in its first order.
Here, people want vaccination to be a military-style process, utilising the best of the public and private sector. As of now, GPs and pharmacists are not involved, but they are due to be at a later stage.