{"id":20767,"date":"2021-04-03T12:52:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T16:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=20767"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:53:18","slug":"ireland-expected-to-administer-one-millionth-vaccine-dose-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=20767","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Expected To Administer One Millionth Vaccine Dose Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ireland will reach the milestone of one million vaccine doses administered some time next week, the head of the health service has predicted.<\/p>\n

Paul Reid said more than 900,000 doses will have been completed by the end of the weekend.<\/p>\n

It comes as a further 511 new cases of the virus were confirmed in the country on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health was also notified of two further deaths linked to the virus.<\/p>\n

As of 8am, there were 242 people with coronavirus in hospital \u2014 and as of 11am there were 65 people in ICU with the disease.<\/p>\n

Mr Reid said: \u201cGood Friday, we had one of our highest days so far for the vaccine administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have well over 900,000 completed by this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring next week, we\u2019ll have administered over one million doses. April & May will see the program scale up further again.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of March 31, the HSE figures show a total of 865,460 vaccine doses have been administered. These include 619,003 first doses and 246,457 second doses.<\/p>\n

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