DUBLIN, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Ireland has secured commitments
for the delivery of 470,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines before
the end of March and hopes to secure "significant quantities" of
doses of vaccines not yet approved, the health minister said on
Thursday.
Ireland, which has a population of 4.9 million, has
confirmed orders for 360,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech
COVID-19 vaccine and for 110,000 doses of the rival Moderna
vaccine, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly told RTE radio.
"It is my hope that we will also have significant quantities
of AstraZeneca and possibly Johnson & Johnson as well" during
the first quarter of the year, he said.
(Reporting by Conor Humphries. Editing by Mark Potter)