Cyber hack sees vaccine wait continue for vulnerable patients

Susan McGrady at her home in Oranmore, Co. Galway. Although she is medically vulnerable, her GP has told her to wait until her age opens on the general vaccine portal.

Plans to vaccinate people at a high risk of illness from Covid-19 have been thrown into disarray as last week's HSE cyberattack has delayed the establishment of a new registration portal for this group.

There are up to 300,000 medically vulnerable people in Group 7 of the vaccine rollout schedule, but the latest figures show just 3,000 of these were vaccinated up to last week.