Health Minister Robin Swann has given further numbers around the vaccination programme in Northern Ireland.
He told Stormont that:
- Around 50,000 people have received a first dose
- 91% of care home residents have been vaccinated
- 30,000 healthcare staff have been jabbed
- Some 504 boxes of AstraZeneca, representing 50,400 doses, have been received
- 45 GP practices have been given the vaccine to administer to their staff and the over-80s
- From the start of the next week all practices will have received 100 doses
- By January 18 more doses are expected to be received from AstraZeneca.
Mr Swann urged the public to stay at home while the programme gathers steam.
"This is a time to hunker down and weather the crisis," he said.
The SDLP's Cara Hunter asked if the department was considering using vaccination vans, door-to door-vaccinations, drive-through vaccination sites, 24-hour options or the re-purposing of Covid-19 testing sites.
Mr Swann said they could not divert their testing centres.
He added: "We need them more than ever now."
Frontline hospital doctors previously expressed their fury over delays in receiving second doses of Covid vaccines - claiming some managers were prioritised ahead of them.
Consultants based in the Belfast trust told The Irish News they believe the trust and Department of Health have broken an agreement to administer the second Pfizer jab within the approved 21 days - and "compromised them" during a surge in coronavirus infections.
Meanwhile, an additional 13 deaths with Covid-19 have been reported, the Department of Health said.
Another 1,985 people have tested positive in the most recent 24-hour reporting period.
Hospitality occupancy was put at 102%.
There are a total of 592 Covid-confirmed inpatients, 44 of whom are being treated in intensive care.
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