Flu vaccine uptake by people aged over 65 reaches 62%

Dr Kevin Kelleher also said that there had been a “massive” increase the number of vaccines given out by the health authority.

There has been a 62% uptake of the flu vaccine by people aged over 65 years this year, it has emerged.

The HSE’s assistant national director of health protection, Kevin Kelleher, has described the uptake of the vaccine by older people as “very good.”