Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Michael McBride is vaccinated at a walk-in Covid-19 clinic

Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Michael McBride received his COVID 19 booster vaccination today at a walk-in COVID-19 clinic in North Belfast organised by McKenzies Pharmacy.

This comes as nearly 200,000 primary vaccine doses and 40,000 booster doses of COVID 19 vaccine have been administered by community pharmacies across NI.

Community pharmacist Peter Rice administered Sir Michael’s booster dose at the Houben Centre. He remarked that there has been a “significant” increase in people presenting for first doses in recent days. With about 30% of doses administered at the minute are for first doses.