Taoiseach: Yesterday Biggest Day Yet In Covid Vaccine Rollout

Over 41,000 doses were administered across the country yesterday

A quarter of adults have now had their first dose - and one in ten have received both jabs.

It comes as 165 thousand AstraZeneca doses are due to arrive here next week, in a delivery that had been postponed until May.

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:

"The fact that it's one dose: that's 600,000 doses going to 600,000 people, rather than, you know, half that number as is the case with the other vaccines. So it is a big benefit to have a vaccine that only has to administer one dose. So, it will disrupt the plans if it's not recommended but I very strongly believe that it will be recommended here."