The seven-day average of vaccine doses administered is now 32,784. The average number of doses administered per day has fallen by roughly 17% since the 9th of February, but is now trending upwards.
Between Tuesday the 9th and Monday the 15th of February, the last day we have data for, 32,784 doses of vaccine were administered, with 24,577 of those being first doses and 8,207 of those being second doses. The daily average number of total doses administered is now 4,683.
Monday the 15th saw GPs began to administer vaccines to people aged 70 and older, Cohort 3 in the Government’s vaccination programme. The CSO estimates that there are 490,000 people to be vaccinated in Cohort 3 but HSE data says that only 66 of the vaccines administered on Monday were given to this group, with the majority of vaccines administered being second doses to Cohort 1, defined by the HSE as “people aged 65 years and older who are residents of long-term care facilities (likely to include all staff and residents on site).”
The total vaccination doses administered is now 280,581, with 182,193 of those being the 1st dose, and 98,388 of those being 2nd doses.
Daily reporting of vaccination numbers only goes back to the 3rd of February, meaning that the 9th of February is the earliest day from which we can show seven-day vaccination averages. On the 9th of February, the daily average number of doses administered was 5,628, with 39,393 doses having been administered between the 3rd and the 9th. Those numbers declined day-on-day until the 14th when they began to move upwards again.