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A load of 470 thousand doses that for now runs the risk of staying in Belgium due to bad weather, blocked by snow. The arrival of Pfizer’s anti-Covid vaccine has been postponed for at least one day in the different regions, with the regions waiting to fill their hubs with stocks, to then supply hospitals and RSA, which will be under special surveillance by the forces. Of the order. In fact, the plans of the prefects are planned for the structures, ready to protect the loads from any attempted theft. From 65,000 doses in Lombardy to 44,000 in Lazio, 40,000 in Piedmont and 16,000 in Liguria, in these hours everything is ready to “flood the health systems with vaccines,” as the government announced two months ago. After V-Day, the second load was expected in all the Regions at this time, but Piedmont and Liguria have already formalized the postponement: “logistical reasons related to the snow wave throughout Europe”, the two Regions explain after a meeting in videoconference with the Commissioner of Emergencies, Domenico Arcuri.
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The first doses of the new batch must arrive in any case before December 30 and be distributed until December 31, and the schedules announced by Pfizer remain yellow, which will deliver the vaccines by their own means at 300 points throughout the territory. The pharmaceutical giant, a few hours before the risks of a postponement were also filtered in Italy, had announced delays of one day also in Spain “due to logistical problems” of the company in Belgium, denying the hypotheses of delay for Italy. According to some rumors, the arrival of the doses was expected in the next few hours, through the management of a German shipping company, at several Italian airports. But from the Emergency Commissioner they confirm that the vials will be on the road stored in vans that will leave Leipzig.
Commissioner Arcuri received “confirmation from Pfizer that the first 469,950 doses of the vaccine, planned for Italy by the contract signed by the European Union this week, will arrive in our country from tomorrow (Tuesday 29th ed)”. The delivery, carried out directly by Pfizer in the first 203 administration sites identified by the Extraordinary Commissioner according to the Regions, will continue as communicated by Pfizer, “on December 30 and will end on December 31,” explained Commissioner Domenico Arcuri . after having confirmed the arrival of 469,950 doses already at this time. And the hospitals and pharmaceutical departments of the facilities where the vials will be stored will be shielded. The prefects and provincial public order committees will soon enter the field to cover the surveillance and escort services of the doses in the different territories, by the Police, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza: from the dose distribution phase once they leave from military centers to storage centers in health centers.
The Ministry of the Interior has an open channel with the Commissioner through precise protocols. The shipping company and Pfizer itself communicate with the Commissioner, who in turn reports the schedule and the destination to the Interior, ready to coordinate everything in the territories with a series of agent relief teams in various places, even during the journey of the different loads. And it is not ruled out that in the next few hours a circular will be distributed to the prefects in this regard. The police will also give their support to vaccines: 310 police doctors are available to administrations for the whole body, but also to citizens if necessary. However, hospitals are also equipped, which in some cases have communicated to the prefects that they have updated the security systems with private surveillance and internal cameras.
