Experts say vaccines are 'highly effective' at reducing Covid hospitalisations and deaths

Vaccinations under way at the mass vaccination centre in the Helix, DCU, Dublin. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Immunology experts say fully vaccinated people are between five and 10 times less likely to contract Covid, and more than 100 times less likely to die from the disease compared to those who are unprotected.

It comes following reports of a small number of deaths among fully vaccinated people.