The first doses of Covid-19 vaccine will begin to be delivered to people in Northern Ireland tomorrow.
Around 12,500 people are expected to get the shot there this week.
People aged 80 and over, care home workers and some healthcare staff are first in line to get immunised.
It comes as 301 new cases of the virus were detected yesterday - while around 100 tests on Saturday were delayed due to technical issues, however it is not clear when the swabs were taken.
Nursing home visits will be allowed in the Republic from today, with one visitor per week permitted.
Should the country's level of Covid-19 restrictions rise it would change to one person every two weeks allowed to visit a resident.
