COVID-19 vaccines are to be rolled out for Limerick people at the Radisson Blu Hotel, located on the Ennis Road, the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, confirmed today.
The West County Hotel in Ennis is to take care of vaccinations for County Clare, and the Abbeycourt Hotel in Nenagh and Clonmel Park Hotel will cater for Tipperary vaccinations.
Contracts between the Department of Heath and with the mid west hotels were agreed in recent days.
Minister Donnelly confirmed locations for 37 vaccination centres across Ireland for the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, with at least one in every county.
As in Co Tipperary, there will be two vaccination centres in Kerry, while Cork will have five vaccination centres.
The centres will support the vaccination of the general population whihc are currently being administered in healthcare settings and by GPs.
Those who have self-registered for the vaccine online will be offered their vaccination in the vaccine centres.
The times and dates of when the vaccination centres will operate have not yet been published.
“This is very good news on a health front and it also heartening to see one of the county’s most popular hotels take a new lease of life in these pandemic times. I will continue to liaise with the HSE and Minister Stephen Donnelly to push for this centre to open sooner, rather than later,” Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe told the Limerick Post.
Minister Donnelly said: “I would like to thank the HSE for their ongoing work in developing these vaccination centres across the country. These centres will be ready well in advance of vaccine supply when they will be used as part of our programme. People can expect to see these vaccination centres ready and waiting in their county,” said Minister Donnelly.
“We have always said the vaccination programme would only be limited by the availability and reliability of supply in these early stages of the programme. In the coming months supply will increase substantially and we will see these centres operating to full capacity and administering vaccines to the general population, following the Government priority list,” added the Minister.
