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Pharmacies Will Start Administering Covid Vaccines From Next Week.

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1,000 pharmacies are expected to administer jabs.

Pharmacies will start administering COVID vaccines from next week.

It's expected around one-thousand community pharmacies will begin issuing Johnson and Johnson vaccines to the remaining over-50s from next Monday.

Around 350 pharmacies will be issuing Pfizer vaccines, largely in communities where the nearest vaccination centre is far away.

It's expected between 250 and 270-thousand vaccines will be delivered this week.

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