‘Particularly low vaccine uptake’ among foreign workers in agriculture, forestry and fishing

Vaccination rates were at 26 per cent among workers from Eastern Europe working in some industries, according to the Central Statistics Office

The vaccination rate among employed adults in Ireland is, according to this data, slightly lower than the vaccination rate among the general population of Ireland. Picture: Getty

More than four out of five (84 per cent) employed adults in Ireland had received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose by September, according to new data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), yet in some sectors uptake was as low as 26 per cent.

More than two million Irish people who were in employment as of January 2021 had received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as of September 10, according ...