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A new Covid-19 vaccination satellite centre in Belmullet is opening this week to serve the communities in North Mayo.

Contract research organisation Charles River Laboratories International Inc. this week announced plans for an €8M expansion of its testing capabilities at its Ballina, Co. Mayo site that will give an additional 1,500m2 of lab space and create up to 90 new skilled roles over the next three years.

The next phase of the national Covid-19 vaccine rollout began this week with pharmacies across the country participating in the massive effort to administer the Covid-19 vaccines as quickly as possible.

The public is being encouraged to avail of the Janssen single dose Covid-19 vaccine which is being offered free of charge from local pharmacies to people aged 50 or over.

Young women are significantly less likely to say they would accept a Covid-19 vaccine, according to new research carried out by NUI Galway as part of a joint Irish-UK project.

A leading Haematologist at Galway University Hospital and the Advanced Therapies and Cancer Group at School of Medicine in NUI Galway are looking at improving health outcomes for patients with Mantle cell Lymphoma by conducting a clinical trial of a new treatment drug which aims to improve survival rates.

Ireland must support an intellectual property rights waiver for Covid-19 vaccines at crucial WTO meeting as daily death toll escalates in India and Brazil

A fifth year Ballyhaunis Community School student who was the recipient of a kidney donation, was one of three teenage kidney transplant recipients to receive their second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccination last week.

Russia is willing to supply Ireland with the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, all that is needed to start the process is an expression of interest from the Irish Government.

Gardaí must be given priority in receiving Covid 19 vaccinations, according to Fine Gael Galway City Central councillor, Eddie Hoare.