Vaccination programme for health care workers getting first Covid jab nears an end

By Q Radio news

The Department of Health has confirmed that the first phase of administering a covid-19 vaccine to health workers is now coming to an end.

Attention will now switch to inviting extremely vulnerable patients into region vaccination centres to receive their jab.

Demand at the centres has been declining in recent days as a result of the region's speedy vaccination programme for frontline health staff.

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A statement from the Department of Health said:

"A further announcement on the timing of the start of the vaccination of those aged 70 and over, the wider Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV) group and those aged 65 and over will be confirmed later this week.

The NI vaccination data for 23 and 24 January - as reported at UK-wide level - is only partial information as it does not contain the GP vaccination figures.  This will be corrected on Monday. 

Demand at the Trust regional vaccination centres has started to decline as we are coming  to the end of HSC workers receiving their first dose of a vaccine.  So Trusts are now working hard to invite their Clinically Extremely Vulnerable patients into these regional centres to receive their vaccine. We would advise that CEV patients do not need to take any action at this stage as your Trust will contact you when it is your turn to receive the vaccine.

We would strongly urge any Health and Social Care Worker, either Trust employed or non-Trust employed,  to take up the offer of vaccination as quickly as possible as this provides the best protection against catching COVID-19".