Vaccine, the campaign has started: first vaccination in Spallanzani. Arcuri: “It will be free but not mandatory”

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With the first three vaccinations at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, the vaccination campaign has officially begun to counter the spread of the new coronavirus. Today alone the first 2,000 doses will be administered throughout Italy, with a number varying from region to region. Everything starts again from Spallanzani in Rome, at 7:20 on December 27. Right here where it all started: the first two Chinese positive for the new coronavirus were hospitalized here, the infected couple from Wuhan. Nine months after the V-day, a day already defined as historical.

Esperanza: “The light is coming, but we have to resist a few more months”

«The light is coming, but we have to hold out for a few more months. It is not over yet and we must always respect the rules, ”said the Minister of Health. Roberto Speranza, which started from a memory: “I remember when they called me by phone to let me know that the first two Chinese citizens, in Italy for tourism, had been hospitalized in Spallanzani, with the suspicion of having contracted Covid.” Almost exactly one year after the admission of the Chinese spouses, the doors of the Roman hospital were reopened, but this time to let in the Pfizer truck with the first doses of the vaccine, to take out the vials to distribute them throughout Italy, to inoculate. the first vaccines.

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Arcuri: “It will be free and not mandatory”

“Today is an exciting day in all EU countries, the vaccination campaign begins. There is still a long way to go and caution and prudence are needed ”, stressed the extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri at the Spallanzani press point in Rome. Arcuri specified that “the vaccine is free for everyone, but not mandatory.” The commissioner announced that 470,000 doses of the vaccine will arrive each week, recalling that “for herd immunity, 80% of Italians need to be vaccinated.” He invited us to be “prudent, patient and responsible. The battle is still very long, we must not fool ourselves that everything is over, but finally there is a vaccine. And answering a question about when he will be vaccinated: «I will vaccinate when it is my turn. I don’t think I have the right to privileges. Today in Spallanzani “other people will be vaccinated, in total 130 – said the medical director of Spallanzani Francesco Vaia – who will then become the “vaccinators” of the entire region. ‘

Nurse Claudia Alivernini: “Vaccinate everyone”

It is a vaccine day that focuses on women working in healthcare: from doctors to nurses, from researchers to patients, and Rsa guests. The first to be vaccinated is a 29-year-old nurse, Claudia alivernini: «I am aware – he said – that today is an important and decisive day. Science and medicine are the only things that will allow us to get out of this virus. I say it with my heart: get vaccinated ». The first three vaccinated in Italy received the dose of the drug at 7:20 a.m. on Sunday, December 27. I am the teacher Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, the nurse Claudia Alivernini and the social and health worker Omar Altobelli. Then two infectious doctors from Spallanzani, doctors Alessandra Vergori and Alessandra D’Abramo.

Conte: «Today Italy wakes up». Gentiloni: “A first step”

«Today Italy wakes up #Vaccineday. This date will remain with us forever. Let’s start with health workers and the most fragile groups and then extend the possibility of achieving immunity and definitively defeating this virus to the entire population. Then the prime minister Giuseppe Conte on twitter on V-Day in Italy and Europe. On Twitter, the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni wrote: “A day of hope, thanks for the research. But the arrival of vaccines is only the first step. The turning point will be vaccines. Of all, in the whole world ».