We get the latest as NIAC approves the use of both the AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson vaccines. Dr Niamh O'Connell, a consultant haematologist at St James's Hospital in Dublin and Dr Ray Walley North Dublin GP talked to Pat.

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