HSE to continue using AstraZeneca for second doses

Public Health Nurse Deirdre Murphy with a vial of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccination at the mass vaccination centre in the Helix, DCU, Dublin. File picture: Brian Lawless

People who received the AstraZeneca vaccine as a first dose will not be given a different vaccine for their second dose, HSE chief executive Paul Reid has said.

The decision not to mix vaccines follows new advice from the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (Niac).