The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD has secured Government approval for a scheme to make a tax-free payment of €100,000 to the estate of any healthcare worker who has died having contracted COVID-19 in the course of their work.
Walk-on Covid-19 clinics have now been extended to the 5-11 age group, and will be offered alongside scheduled clinics at the three Mid-West Vaccination Centres all this weekend, from Friday March 4 to Sunday March 6 and going forward.
The Department of Public Health Mid-West, the UL Hospitals Group, and HSE Mid West Community Healthcare is encouraging people who are immunocompromised, or those with weak immune systems, to avail of their additional COVID-19 vaccine dose in order to be fully-vaccinated.
