DUBLIN (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 (NASDAQ:MRNA) 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 (NYSE:JNJ) as well" during the first quarter of the year, he said.