The over-70s will be among the first groups to be given Covid-19 vaccinations, alongside long-term care residents and frontline healthcare workers, under plans to be considered by Cabinet on Tuesday. The second group will be frontline healthcare workers with direct patient contact, followed by the over-70s. It comes as representative groups for frontline workers indicated their expectation that their members should be considered for priority access to the inoculation programme. The Garda Representative Association said medical professionals would decide on priority groups but “we would expect to be a high priority among frontline workers”. The Irish Prison Service has requested the country’s prisoners be among the priority groups to receive a vaccine ahead of its distribution to the general population.

Source: The Irish Times December 08, 2020 01:27 UTC