When the incidence of Covid-19 is low, the potential harms to 20-29 year olds from the vaccine outweighed the benefits of preventing ICU admissions through vaccination, the MHRA found

Move could result in vaccines being administered to the public at local pharmacies by the end of March

The over-80s benefited most with the weekly average for new cases falling more

The EU’s response to the vaccine roll-out has been dispiriting. Massive state intervention is urgently needed to ramp up vaccine production by pharma giants

The country manager on the development of the pioneering vaccine and why Ireland will not be used as a manufacturing base for it in the short term

Tánaiste says rollout to older people will be slower following recommendation that Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, rather than AstraZeneca, should be used for this group

Certain hospitals in Ireland have managed to extract seven doses from Pfizer-BioNtech vials

As the government ramps up the rollout effort to seven days a week, how do we compare to other countries?