Ireland to receive at least 4.9m Pfizer vaccines in 2022 and again in 2023 

Employees in a Pfizer pharmaceutical factory. Ireland will receive at least 4.9m vaccines each year in 2022 and 2023 under a deal struck between Pfizer and the EU. Picture: John Thys, Pool via AP

Ireland will receive at least 4.9m vaccines each year in 2022 and 2023 under a deal struck between Pfizer and the EU.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has received Cabinet approval to enter a €191m deal which would ensure the country has supplies of Covid vaccines in the coming years.