Almost 2% of Ireland’s population given vaccine

Annie Lynch, 79, was the first person to receive a coronavirus vaccine in Ireland and will be receiving her second dose this week. (Marc O’Sullivan/AP)

About 1.9% of Ireland’s population has been given the Covid-19 vaccine, according to the health minister.

Stephen Donnelly said that, by Sunday night, 94,000 vaccines were administered, with 71,000 frontline healthcare workers and 23,000 of residents and staff of long-term care facilities inoculated.