300,000 more people to offered measles catch up vaccine

Last month, the World Health Organization warned that more than half of the world’s countries will be at high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent preventative measures are taken. File picture: Getty Images

More than 300,000 people are to be offered a measles catch-up vaccine under plans being drawn up by the health minister.

Stephen Donnelly is expected to tell his Cabinet colleagues on Tuesday that a catch-up programme will be rolled out because of the public health threat from measles.