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ROME – The delivery of another 666,000 doses of Pfizer accelerates the safety of those over 80 while instructing the government to immediately go out with vaccines for extremely vulnerable people (who will always be administered Pfizer or Moderna) and open to stocks for those older than 70s thus stopping the flood of vaccines from the categories that were pushing to advance as essential services from the start. And another 684,000 doses of Astrazeneca were delivered in the afternoon to Pratica di Mare and between tomorrow and the day after tomorrow they will be distributed to the Regions by the army with the Eos operation. And always tomorrow, around noon, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella he will be vaccinated at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. ” Getting vaccinated – said the head of state in the end of the year message – is a choice of responsibility, a duty. Even more so for those who work in contact with the sick and the most fragile. Faced with such a contagious disease, which causes so many deaths, it is necessary to protect health and it is necessary to protect that of others, family, friends, colleagues. I will vaccinate as soon as possible, after the categories that, being the highest risk, should have priority. Mattarella will turn eighty years old on July 23.
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Tomorrow, therefore, the meeting of the Scientific Technical Committee is scheduled to evaluate new restrictive measures against the spread of infections. The new summit would have been promoted by the government in light of the minutes of the experts on Friday in which the scientists expressed “great concern” about the dissemination of the variants and reiterated the need to increase measures at the national and local level. Among the hypotheses under study, generalized closings on weekends, stricter red zones and the criterion of 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants to automatically enter the red zone.
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Meanwhile, the premier’s meeting took place at Palazzo Chigi this afternoon. Draghi and the ministers of health Hope and Regional Affairs Gelmini with the emergency commissioner Child, the head of Civil Protection Curcio and the CEO of Poste Of the infantryman took stock of the acceleration that the government intends to give to the vaccination campaign with the presentation of the new plan that – thanks also to the extension of the AstraZeneca serum to those over 65 years authorized today with a circular from the Ministry of Health – still changes Criteria in course: first the most fragile, then strictly by age in alphabetical order. On the table are the interventions from the logistical point of view and to ensure the constant increase in daily administrations that is already approaching 200,000.
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The first regions, Lazio, Tuscany, Val d’Aosta, are already ready to start with the over 70s from Wednesday. The government’s request is to take advantage of the platform made available by the Italian Post Office to which, at the moment, only six regions adhere. Now there are 7,200,000 doses available for Italy, which expects between tomorrow and the day after tomorrow (delayed a few days in the calendar) another shipment of 500,000 doses of Astrazeneca. The regions are pressing for a redistribution of quotas, at this time not by target but in relation to the resident population.
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Civil protection and the army plan the logistics of the mass campaign that must begin immediately after Easter: administrations from 6 to midnight in the great poles that are being prepared in the capitals in palaces, gyms, barracks, fairs, pavilions, clinics, tensions. structures with immediate use of a large part of the army of medical specialists for whom the health ministry has already closed the agreement. Motorhomes with teams of doctors and nurses who will move to small centers to vaccinate all residents and 118 home administration teams for the elderly and disabled to fill the deficiencies of the Usca.
