Flu vaccine hit by delay to latest batch delivery

Dr Mike Thompson at Ireland’s first drive-through flu vaccine clinic at the Market Green Retail Park, Midleton, Co Cork. The clinic opened on Saturday morning with 390 appointments and a further 124 on Sunday morning. Picture: Dan Linehan

The HSE’s flu vaccine programme has been hit by yet another setback with a delay in the delivery of the latest batch of medicine.

Writing to GPs last night, the HSE’s director of public health medicine Dr Lucy Jessop said that restrictions would be put in place “due to a delay in the shipment of vaccine from the manufacturer”.