It comes as a HSE announcement is due later this week that people in their 40s are expected to be invited to apply for a Covid-19 vaccine shortly. They can be offered the Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca jabs, although they will be free to turn them down and wait for a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine to be available. In the UK there continues to be concern about the rise in clusters of the Indian variant of the virus which is more infectious and could delay easing of lockdown. An Oxford University study suggested current coronavirus vaccines work well against the Indian variant. John Bell, Oxford’s regius chair of medicine said “it looks like the Indian variant will be susceptible to the vaccine in the way that others are.

Source: Irish Independent May 18, 2021 01:32 UTC