All age cohorts will be able to get a booster from their GP but not from their local pharmacy.
Pharmacists have been told they must stick to administering jabs to cohorts approved by the HSE.
However GPs vaccinating their own patients will be allowed to give boosters to people aged 16 and above but will prioritise older age groups.
Vaccine centres are to open 12 hours and day and the 15 minute wait time post-vaccination has been scrapped.
🦠 443 Covid patients in Irish hospitals - lowest in two months!
Drop from 470 since yesterday.
📉 16.4% lower than last Thursday, and 18.7% down on two weeks ago.
🩺 105 in ICU (latest).— Ben Finnegan (@_BenFinnegan) December 16, 2021
Pharmacy Cohorts Explained
Darragh O'Loughlin, Irish Pharmacy Union Secretary General, explains who pharmacists can vaccinate.
"Pharmacies are going to be giving booster vaccines to anybody aged 50 or over or who has an underlying health condition or who is a health care worker or who is pregnant."
"That is who pharmacies will be targeting."
"There was information sent to pharmacies by the HSE yesterday, to say they could vaccinate all the way down through the age cohorts as far as age 16."
"But that was an error that shouldn't have been sent out."
