Residents of Moorehall Lodge on the Dublin Road will be among the first group of nursing home residents in the region to receive the new COVID-19 vaccine. They have been scheduled for January 15th. Aras Mhuire at Beechgrove, home to retired members of the Medical Missionaries of Mary are booked in for January 19th, along with the Boyne Valley nursing Home at Dowth. Vaccination of 70,000 nursing home residents and staff is to begin on January 11 and be completed by the end of February. The vaccination teams will visit all the local nursing and hospital facilities to administer two doses over a six-week period. The dates are subject to change, depending on the roll out of the vaccine.