THE HSE chief has confirmed vaccinations of people deemed high risk due to serious illness will get underway in the middle of this week.
Paul Reid said the roll out will begin with some 10,000 doses being given to people with neurological issues and disabilities between the ages of 16 and 69.
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He said there could potentially be up to 150,000 people who fall into the high risk category with the HSE starting a process of identifying all the individuals concerned.
He told This Week on RTE Radio 1: "This could be a very high number, well over 150,000, particularly the ones who are at very high risk and we're working through those lists with hospitals.
"Next week we'll be administering about 10,000 vaccines to people who fall into that very high risk category overall.
"In essence in the first week it will be people probably with intellectual, neurological issues, particularly in disability settings and homes.
"Starting during this week, 10,000 is our allocation for this cohort."
OVER 85s JABS
Mr Reid also said there is a small number of over 85s who still have to receive their first dose however, it is hoped that they will be jabbed by next week.
He continued: "In relation to the over 85s we have always said it is a three week programme and at the end of the third week we have practically most, 95 per cent, of the 72,500 over-85s completed.
"There's a small number to be completed next week which are, about 500 patients over 85 that will be vaccinated in their own practices.
"Also as part of that programme are people over 85 who are at home and not in a position to get to either a vaccination centre or a GP practice.
"They will be completed by work between the GPs and the National Ambulance Service so the vast majority will be completed by the end of this week, a smaller number will be completed into next week.
"We've also well started the 80 to 84 programme and that will continue next week too."
MISSED TARGETS
The HSE missed their targets of 100,000 vaccines both last week and the week prior by around 20,000 each time.
However, Mr Reid said the HSE has faced "significant issues" with supply - particularly experiencing issues with deliveries from AstraZeneca.
Mr Reid said: "We've had significant issues in terms of supply. We are continuously as part of that over half a million done, in a given week whatever supply we get is distributed and vaccinated in that week, in most cases within three days from when we get it.
"There have been some issues around the delivery of AstraZeneca which has impacted us particularly in the last couple of weeks.
"Just to give you an example, because of the efficiency rate we have been operating at, if you take last Friday week we had very short notice of a delivery of just over 64,000 from AstraZeneca.
"That impacted us on that week because we planned to use those on that Saturday and Sunday so because we're operating at such a tight efficiency level, an impact like that does impact us significantly.
"We have been assured by AstraZeneca that those shortfalls will be made up over the coming weeks and they will live up to their commitment of about 377,000 for the quarter in total.
"There have been issues with AstraZeneca and we all know going back about their commitments across Europe. "
POSITIVITY RATES
Meanwhile, the HSE's National Lead for Testing and Tracing today highlighted the circumstances that are most associated with positive tests.
Niamh O'Beirne also said early data from primary schools reopening has been "quite positive".
She told the same programme: "When we're talking to cases the kind of circumstances that come up would be travelling to work together, car pooling, having people living together and sharing bathrooms and bedrooms, attending funerals consistently has come up, occasionally weddings but we're definitely seeing more in the case of funerals, going to someone's house for a birthday party or for tea and then certain types of workplaces.
"We started with creches and some of the special schools (reopening) and we've had increased positiivity in the small children under four which ran at about 14 per cent last week.
"Primary schools are only open since Monday so we've very early data from primary schools that has been quite positive. Only 23 schools have required us to come in and do mass testing.
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"The positivity level has been very low so far from that so so far it's good news, nothing alarming there but it's early days.
"With the virus levels in the community is much lower than it has been so there's less likelihood of children going into school in their infectious period and have the opportunity to pass it on.
"We have a very efficient system in identifying the cases and going into the schools, doing a public health risk assessment, deciding how many people are going to be tested and getting them tested and results back."
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