 Large vaccination centres were put in place nationwide to administer COVID-19 vaccines | |
| Date | 29 December 2020 – present (3 years, 4 months ago) |
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| Location |  Republic of Ireland |
| Cause | COVID-19 pandemic |
| Organised by | Health Service Executive (HSE) |
| Participants | |
| Outcome | 85% of the Irish eligible population (5+) are fully vaccinated[1] 77.1% of the Irish adult population (18+) have received a first booster dose[2] 27.7% of the Irish adult population (18+) have received a second booster dose[2] 8.5% of the Irish adult population (18+) have received a third booster dose[2] |
| Website | gov.ie |
| As of February 2023[update] | |
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The COVID-19 vaccination programme in the Republic of Ireland is an ongoing mass immunisation campaign that began on 29 December 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland.[3][4] Ireland's vaccination rollout has been praised as one of the most successful rollouts in the world and was ranked number one in the European Union in terms of its percentage of adult population fully vaccinated,[5] and was also ranked number one in the EU for the number of booster vaccines administered.[6]
As of 20 February 2023, 12,744,694 vaccine doses have been administered, of which 4,107,865 people have received at least one dose, 3,819,227 have received their second dose and 4,817,602 have received a booster dose.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f "Ireland's COVID-19 Data Hub – Vaccinations". Health Service Executive (HSE). Department of Health. Archived from the original on 15 March 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ a b c "COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker – European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control". European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ "Statement from the National Public Health Emergency Team - Tuesday 29 December". gov.ie. Department of Health. 29 December 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ "Covid-19: Republic of Ireland begins vaccine rollout". BBC News. 29 December 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ McCurry, Cate (27 September 2021). "Taoiseach hails Ireland's 'most successful' vaccine rollout in the world". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 4 October 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
- ^ Ní Aodha, Gráinne; Duffy, Rónán; McNally, Tadgh (4 January 2022). "Ireland ranked highest in Europe for boosters as elective care may be cancelled due to Covid". TheJournal.ie. Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
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