Tuesday marked the first Pfizer-BioNTech jabs to be administered at four hospitals across the country: St James’s and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Galway.
Bernie Waterhouse, a clinical nurse manager on a COVID-19 ward at St James’s, was the first healthcare worker in Ireland to get the vaccine.
She said: ‘I wanted to get the vaccine to protect myself, and the people I work with and care for every day, from COVID-19.’
Bernie Waterhouse, a clinical nurse manager on a COVID-19 ward at St James’s, was the first healthcare worker in Ireland to get the vaccine. Pic: Marc O’Sullivan
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UHG records highest daily total of confirmed COVID-19 cases since start of pandemic
31 December 2020
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – University Hospital Galway has recorded its highest daily total of confirmed COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic.
According to HSE figures, there are 22 confirmed cases at the city’s acute hospital today – the highest daily figure since St. Stephen’s Day when 21 coronavirus patients were being treated there.
There are no confirmed cases at Portiuncula Hospital Ballinasloe today.
However, one individual is undergoing general treatment for a suspected case of COVID-19 at the east Galway hospital, while a further 12 patients at UHG are awaiting the results of a COVID-19 test.