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Another 2.8 million doses of the vaccine reach the entire national territory. The announcement was made during the visit to the Messina vaccination center by the commissioner for the Covid emergency, General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo. A few words addressed to the reporters gathered in front of the Fair to explain that “next week, which runs from March 29 to April 3, more than a million doses of Pfizer will arrive, more than 500 thousand doses of the Moderna vaccine and more than 1.3 million from AstraZeneca. ” dose. “And this – he explains – is the prelude to having a massive influx of doses during the month that allow us to use the hubs that we are going to create.”
Accompanying General Figliuolo to Messina, on his first visit to Sicily, is the head of the Sicilian Civil Protection, Salvatore Cocina, as well as the Prefect of Messina Cosima di Stani and the chiefs of the police. To the journalists he limited himself to saying: “Today we have eleven million doses of vaccine on the plate, obviously they are being administered and I am happy with this – specified the general in uniform – We surpassed excellent percentages. Two days ago 245,000 thousand, yesterday 240 thousand “, he says. Later, when a journalist asks him if there are disparities between the regions, the general responds:” There is no disparity between the regions. ”
The Covid Emergency Commissioner also took stock of Sicily, which “is doing 20,000 vaccinations a day and we are in the midst of the vaccination campaign.” But immediately he adds: “It is clear that we have to double and reach about 50,000 doses.” “It is necessary to double the vaccines in Sicily to reach 50,000 per day and for this it is necessary to find new vaccination centers and new vaccination points,” he explains. “There is a strategy in the plan that provides for capillarization to visit and vaccinate large centers in cities like Messina in the most inaccessible areas,” he says.
Speaking more specifically of Messina, the general underlines: “We shared with the Prefect, the Mayor and the local health authorities the possibility of expanding the offer in the city. This place (the Fair ed.) It was a great effort, but 52 vaccinations Las stations in such a congested area could create physical problems in the future when the tourist season opens. ” “So what have we decided with Civil Protection? Dressing from the logistical point of view another place that we have identified in the PalaRescifina building, which is near the ring road, has spaces and the mayor has made it available. We will get dressed in no time. so that it is accessible to citizens after Easter “, he says.
And he adds: “The Defense will contribute to deploy the logistics” for the construction of the new vaccination center in Messina that will be born in PalaRescifina. The building “has space – says Figliuolo – the aim is to make it accessible to citizens after Easter. It will be a joint effort that will be carried out by Civil Protection, the city, the Provincial Health Authority, the Region, coordinated by the Government. Practical things, improve together we can do it. You have to look for harmony. Nobody has to say ‘I feel cheated because this was the best place in the world’. This was the optimal start and now more needs to be done ”.
As Adnkronos finds out, during the information meeting that took place in the center of Messina with the general, the prefect of Messina Cosima Di Stani, called for “an increase in the number of volunteers in the centers.” During the meeting, the commissioner for the Covid emergency spoke of “a considerable effort in ten days” that has been carried out in Sicily. Then the emphasis was on programming in the province of Messina.
Shortly after 1 in the afternoon, the general left the center of Messina for Catania, where he visited the vaccination center. A quick visit to the old fruit and vegetable market of San Giuseppe La Rena, in which the National Commissioner for the Covid 19 emergency, was accompanied, among others, by the President of the Sicilian Region, Nello Musumeci and the Regional Health Councilor , Ruggero. Razza. But at the end of the visit, General Figliuolo made no statements to the many journalists present. Figliuolo’s visits to vaccination centers will continue in the future.
Meanwhile, a heartfelt appeal comes to Figliuolo from the Piedmontese Governor Alberto Cirio: “The State must give us more vaccines, because this Tuesday in Rome I will meet with the Minister of Regional Affairs Gelmini and then with General Figliuolo, to take stock of this need because the vaccine army is ready but needs more ammunition. ” “Right now we must all be together, work as a team, understand the difficulties of others and move forward together, and doctors are undoubtedly an important resource that we must help and add to.” (from correspondent Elvira Terranova)
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