The Taoiseach says yesterday was the biggest day yet in the Covid vaccine rollout with over 41,000 doses given out.
A quarter of adults have now had their first dose - and one in ten have received both jabs.
It comes as 165,000 AstraZeneca doses are due to arrive here next week, in a delivery that had been postponed until May.
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Meanwhile, officials will decide in the coming days how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine should be used after concerns about very rare blood clots.
US regulators have recommended the jab should be used again and immunology professor at Trinity College Dublin, Kingston Mills, hopes the same will happen here.
