Ireland given vaccination boost as EU Commission secures 3.3m more doses of Pfizer jab for country
8 Jan 2021, 22:00
IRELAND’S vaccination bid was given a major booster - as the European Commission sealed a deal to bag us 3.3million more doses of Pfizer’s jab.
The groundbreaking agreement is expected to inject pace into the vaccine rollout here, as hundreds more people got the shot including all frontline staff in the country’s children’s hospitals.
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4 Staff Nurse Abhishek Suroy was the first person at Crumlin hospital to ge the jabCredit: Stedman
It comes as one of the country’s leading concert organisers predicted major music festivals such as Electric Picnic will go ahead this year -with vaccines saving the summer.