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The majority of Ireland’s over-85s will be able to get the Covid-19 vaccine from their own GP while 6,000 will be administered the jab in another surgery or hub, it emerged last night.
Monaghan GP expects 'very rapid rise' in Covid-19 cases within week
Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have contributed to a 60% drop in the number of calls to SouthDoc relating to young children. It has been a very difficult and different year for the out-of-hours GP service with many enforced changes to ensure the safety of staff and patients in the pandemic. Since March, there’s been a 16% decrease in patients contacting the service, but every contact may take more time with both nurses and doctors triaging in many cases. Dr Gary Stack, Medical Director of SouthDoc, says the biggest drop in presentations to the service relates to the under 6s: