Ireland has completed a deal to secure an extra 700,000 vaccines from Romania.
Taoiseach Micheal Martin says it will come as a welcome boost to our vaccination rollout which has seen huge support and uptake.
We’ve completed a deal to secure an additional 700,000 #CovidVaccines from Romania/EU.
Fantastic news and a welcome boost to our rollout, which continues to experience huge support and uptake from the Irish public.
— Micheál Martin (@MichealMartinTD) August 3, 2021
The six-millionth vaccine is to be administered this week.
It comes after 30,000 people attended walk-in vaccine centres over the weekend.
The 700,000 additional vaccines will be delivered throughout the month of August.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly says the additional doses "will allow us to continue to ramp up the rollout of the vaccination programm2".
