It is understood that the HSE has recommended to the government to continue with the age-based rollout system of the Covid 19 vaccine. The recommendation could go before the cabinet for approval today. Meanwhile, the vaccine portal for those in their fifties opens today beginning with those aged 59.  Paul Moynagh Professor of Immunology and Director of the Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health research at Maynooth University

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