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The vaccine race has begun. While Italy thinks of new design structures to place in the squares and in which to go to vaccinate, Europe equips the existing spaces and in particular begins to vaccinate. The EMA could anticipate the decisive meeting on the Pfizer-BionTech vaccine and the green light could arrive on December 21, 8 days earlier than expected. From that moment, after the approval of the AIFA, the vaccination phase could also start in Italy. The calendar would have already been prepared by the extraordinary curator Domenico Arcuri, who gave an interview to Corriere della Sera explaining what will be the cadences of the call to vaccines.
The question that all of Italy is asking itself in these hours, in addition to how it can move at Christmas waiting for the new Dpcm, is one: when will there be the first vaccinations in Italy? Domenico Arcuri at this point seems to have clear ideas on this point: “If the pharmaceutical agencies in Italy (Aifa) and in Europe (Ema) respect the calendar, symbolically at the end of DecemberThe idea that a vaccination can begin “symbolically” has nothing concrete and in fact it is the commissioner himself who explains that, in fact, it is just a propaganda project. There will be a European Vaccine Day immediately after Christmas, involving Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. But the real vaccination plan should (the conditional is essential) begin “mass ad early JanuaryThe first doses to be administered will be those of the Pfizer vaccine, the most complex to store and transport. The first batch of vaccines due to Italy will contain 1,833,975 doses to be distributed to the regions.
Less than a million inhabitants will be vaccinated in this first phase, considering that the Pfizer vaccine needs two doses to be effective, but more injections of the vaccine should arrive in the country in the first quarter. Domenico Arcuri, avoiding the label of a single man in command, reassures Corriere della Sera about Italy’s readiness to accept the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine: “There are the hubs, the equipment for the cold stores and the distribution system is ready to go“. The first doses will be destined to the most exposed workers, therefore to medical-health personnel, and to RSA, both patients and operators. Only in the second phase of distribution, the vaccine can be administered massively, although we still do not know when: “It will depend on the authorizations and the production of vaccines. It can be in the first quarter of 2021Next, Domenico Arcuri clarified the logical criteria that will be followed to determine the priority in vaccinations:It will start with the 11 million inhabitants who are over sixty years old, starting with the oldest down. The second phase of vaccination should also include workers who perform essential services that put them at risk: law enforcement agencies, schools, public transportation and even prisons.“.
In the long interview with Corriere della sera there is also space to address the topic ofIlva of Taranto, where the State returns through Invitalia, of which Domenico Arcuri is the CEO. An ambitious project, heir to Italsider but with other objectives: “The state will guarantee a rapid transition of steel production towards levels of environmental and social sustainability.“Meanwhile, Italy has already requested the authorization of nationalization in Brussels and Domenico Arcuri set himself very ambitious goals to achieve, going from 3.4 to 8 million tons of production: “Steel is used all over the world and is very much needed in Italy.“.
