Irish Examiner view: Pharmacists play vital role in vaccine rollout

Move makes the national vaccination programme more accessible

Pharmacist Niamh Boden with Dorothy Fisher (age 68) in Dunville Community Pharmacy in Ranelagh, Dublin. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / Photocall

Pharmacists joined the vaccine rollout on Thursday as they administered the first doses of the one-shot Johnson and Johnson/Janssen vaccine at 800 pharmacies around the country. 

It is a further boost to a national programme that is already vaccinating around 300,000 people a week, according to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.