‘Absolutely essential’ family carers prioritised for Covid-19 vaccine

Vials of the BioNTech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. File picture: PA

Family carers are frontline healthcare workers and need to be treated as such in the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, the Sinn Féin leader has said.

Mary Lou McDonald said it was “absolutely essential” that the country’s 500,000 family carers are given priority on the list when it is reconfigured by the Department of Health.