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The distribution in the first phase entrusted to the army.“The first phase of vaccine distribution is handled by the army,” explains Transport Minister Paola De Micheli. Then there will be a second phase, when the number of vaccines will be much more consistent and other vaccines will also be certified, at that time. point there will be an intervention of all the Italian private logistics that is ready “.
More than 94 thousand doses to Lombardy Lombardy will receive most of the doses from the first batch of 469,950 doses of Pfizer vaccine, where 94,770 doses are expected to arrive immediately, announces the Councilor for Well-being of the Region, Giulio Gallera. Among the other Regions in which substantial loads are expected are Lazio (44,000), Piedmont (40,000), Veneto (38,000) and Liguria (16,000).
Times are getting longer in some regions And in some Regions, cargo arrival times have been further extended, and they are still slipping. In Sardinia, stocks will arrive in Cagliari on December 31, while in Campania most of the 35,000 vaccines will arrive from the next few hours until January 2.
For each vial 6 doses and not 5 In the meantime, given the indications received from the Italian medicine agency, from each vial of Pfizer-Biontech anti-Covid vaccine it will be possible to obtain 6 doses and not 5. The dose of vaccine for each person is 0.3 mm, which must extracted under aseptic conditions and using suitable precision syringes, from a vaccine vial containing 2.25 mm, after the expected dilution with 0.9% sodium chloride solution. In this way, explains the Italian Society of Hospital Pharmacy, “with a thousand vials, 6,000 people can be treated instead of 5,000.”
Gyms and swimming pools, hypothesized to reopen at the end of January At the end of January, meanwhile, it will be possible “although with some limitations, to reopen gyms, swimming pools and dance centers.” Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora is convinced of this. The Bioethics Committee recommends caution on this issue.
In the US, the spike is “out of control” The pandemic, however, is not slackening. In the United States, the peak is even “out of control”, warns first virologist Anthony Fauci. And in Colorado, the first case of the English variant was identified. In Europe, Britain is the hardest hit by Covid and the government is preparing for a further crackdown on travel, as is France. Although the Minister of Health assures that there will be no new confinement. The curfew will likely be advanced (from 20 to 18) in the French regions with the most infections.
Israel, already half a million vaccinated Meanwhile, alarming revelations come from China about how much infections in Wuhan, where it all began, have been underestimated. In the first epicenter of Covid, infections could have been even 10 times more than those registered: 500 thousand, instead of 50 thousand officials, according to a study by the Chinese Center for Disease Control. In the rest of the world, the increase in cases in Israel remains a concern, despite the third shutdown, even if half a million have already been vaccinated.
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