![]() Large vaccination centres were put in place nationwide to administer COVID-19 vaccines | |
Date | 29 December 2020 – present (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cause | COVID-19 pandemic |
Organised by | Health Service Executive (HSE) |
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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]