GPs say 'easier' to use AstraZeneca vaccine for the over-70s in remote areas

A dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is prepared.

Two GPs in the west of Ireland have said that it would be much easier to use the AstraZeneca vaccine for the over-70s in remote areas.

Dr Peter Sloane, who has a practice in Carraroe, Co Galway told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show that he had a number of housebound patients for whom it would be “a major undertaking” to get to a vaccination centre.