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“The 469,950 doses of the vaccine will reach the Italian territory late in the afternoon today. The company will then proceed directly to the delivery, starting tomorrow morning, to the administration sites identified by the Commissioner in accordance with the Regions ”. This was announced by the structure of the Covid Emergency Commissioner, Domenico Arcuri, specifying that “Pfizer has just communicated to the Commissioner’s Offices a different schedule for the delivery of vaccines in Italy, foreseen for this week by the contract signed with the European Union.” Deliveries will also continue on December 31.
Stocks of approximately 470,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are expected to arrive aboard six aircraft tonight., which will land at so many different airports in the country, including those in Milan and Rome. The chain of distribution of vaccines, whose shipment in the Italian territory is managed by a German company, foresees the capillary distribution, carried out directly by the pharmaceutical company, in the first 203 administration points of the different regions. The first phase of the campaign concerns health personnel and guests in nursing homes.
From each vial of Pfizer-Biontech anti-Covid vaccine it is possible to obtain 6 doses and not 5: to specify it is the Italian Medicines Agency (Aifa) on their website. The dose of vaccine for each person is 0.3 mm, which must be extracted under aseptic conditions and with suitable precision syringes, from a 2.25 mm vaccine vial, after the expected dilution with sodium chloride solution. 0.9%. In this way, explains Sifo (Italian Society of Hospital Pharmacy), “with a thousand vials 6000 people can be treated instead of 5000”.
“In this way – Sifo adds – vaccination coverage is expanded and extended from the beginning and a considerable economy of scale is also achieved: any center authorized to vaccinate Italian citizens must know it and act accordingly.” For its part, Aifa announces: “With the aim of using all the product available in each vial and avoiding any waste, in accordance with the provisions of the Agency’s Scientific Technical Commission, it is highlighted that, without prejudice to the need to To ensure the administration of the correct amount of 0.3 mm to each vaccinated subject by using suitable syringes, it is possible to have at least 1 additional dose with respect to the 5 doses declared in the Summary of Product Characteristics. ” You must mix any waste from different vials, even from the same lot number.
Ema is “unlikely” to give the green light to AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine in January. This was stated by the Deputy Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency, Noel Wathion, in an interview with the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. “They have not yet been implemented,” he added, noting that “more data is needed on the quality of the vaccine.”
