June target for Covid 19 vaccine rollout looks set to be missed
Johnson and Johnson is expected to under-delivery a large amount of its vaccine next month.
Ireland had been due to get 476,000 of the single shot jab - instead the government has said at best half of that will be delivered and the worst case scenario would see just 60,000 arrive.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar says that s likely to mean a slow down for the vaccine roll out.
436 new cases of Covid 19 have been confirmed this evening in the Republic. 101 patients are in hospital with the virus of which 39 are in ICU. The department of health says the case numbers may change due to future data reviews, following the cyber attack.