Vaccination of the over 40s group will begin before the end of this month, it emerged today. It came as the latest figures showed there have been 802 new cases of Covid-19 notified to the Health Protection Surveillance Centre in the last 48 hours. A total of 447 new cases had been notified up to midnight on Friday, and a further 355 new cases were confirmed yesterday. Read MoreLatest Department of Health figures have 109 Covid-19 patients in Irish hospitals, of which 42 are in ICU. The Department of Health has advised that daily case figures for Friday and Saturday of this week may change due to “future data validation”.

Source: Irish Independent May 16, 2021 14:31 UTC