About 45 per cent of adults in the State have had their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, the Health Service Executive (HSE) chief Paul Reid said. Mr Reid said on Saturday more than 15 per cent of the population was fully vaccinated. Online Covid-19 vaccine registrations opened on Saturday for people aged 46. According to provisional data released on Friday by Public Health Mid-West, there were 137 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Limerick over the past five days. Dr Mai Mannix, director of Public Health Mid-West, said: “We have not seen this level of infection in the community since early March, which is a very worrying trend.

Source: The Irish Times May 22, 2021 08:27 UTC