Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 February 2021
783. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Health the status of public usage of the Covid-19 tracker application by month in tabular form; if there are plans to include vaccination information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8380/21]
View answerThank you for your question on the COVID Tracker App which is a valuable digital tool that can be utilised by the public to help suppress COVID-19.
Since the Health Service Executive has operational responsibility for the App, I have asked them to respond directly regarding the operational use data.
Regarding the inclusion of vaccination data, I'm pleased to advise that both first and second dose vaccination data is now available on the COVID Tracker App. As of 12th February 175,238 first-dose vaccines have been administered and 89,999 second-dose vaccinations administered.
Also, the Health Service Executive has just made data available on the App by vaccine type. I am able to advise that data is now reported in the COVID Tracker App by vaccination type with the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccine dosages reported.
The implementation of this information onto the COVID Tracker App for general use was a result of co-operation and dedication by a range of staff across the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive, executed at pace and under the difficult working environment that we all find ourselves in due to COVID-19.
