Pharmacists to begin offering Covid jabs to over 50s

Around 60,000 doses of the J&J vaccine will be distributed to pharmacies across the country.

People over 50 will be able to get a Covid-19 vaccine from their local pharmacist from today as more than 1,000 pharmacies across the country join the vaccination programme.

They will initially only administer the one-shot Johnson and Johnson (J&J) vaccine, however, the Pfizer jab will be made available in the coming weeks.