A Covid booster vaccine could be offered to all adults by the end of the year.
The news comes as the Cabinet was briefed on plans should the number of coronavirus cases surge in Ireland in the coming weeks. Among the plans was offering an additional booster to all those adults who have not already had a second one.
Almost 10,000 additional booster doses are reported to have been issued one day last week, the most in one day since January. Yesterday there were 474 Covid-19 cases in Ireland's hospitals - a 45% increase within the last two weeks.
