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the 9,750 Doses of the Pfizer anti-Coronavirus vaccine were delivered to the Spallanzani Institute in Rome. The van with the doses on board had arrived last night from Belgium at the Tor di Quinto barracks, escorted by the carabinieri cars, in preparation for the first vaccinations that will begin on December 27. In Spallanzani, the doses will be divided into boxes that will then be delivered to the military who will transport them in 300 places administration, mainly hospitals, because the vaccine must be stored at very low temperatures (-80 degrees centigrade), which limits the ease of distribution. Part of the vaccines will go to the Pratica di Mare military airport, while the rest will be distributed in military vehicles to other destinations that will arrive by land within 300 kilometres.
The first vaccinations at the end of the year will only involve health personnel and subsequently 11 million of Italians over 60 years old. For the start of a more massive vaccination campaign, that should count 27 million of vaccines for Italy in 200 million in Europe, we will have to wait for the new year. But others should arrive next week 450 thousand dose of the vaccine. On Twitter, the president of the European Commission von der Leyen expressed her satisfaction with the delivery of the vaccine for tomorrow’s V-Day: “The vaccine has been made available at the same time for the entire European Union and the first ones will arrive dose administered simultaneously in Athens, Rome, Helsinki and Sofia! ».
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From Holland to Hungary: the first doses arrive
Meanwhile, the distribution of vaccines abroad continues. This morning the first doses destined for the Netherlands arrived in Oss, in the province of North Brabant, well in advance of the first vaccination, which will take place on 8 January. In Belgium, on the other hand, where vaccinations will begin on Monday in three nursing homes, 10,000 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines were delivered on Saturday morning at the university hospital in Leuven.
Preparations for the first vaccines are also ready in Hungary. On Twitter, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s spokesman Zoltan Kovacs explained that the 9,750 the doses received so far will be used to vaccinate 4,875 healthcare workers who are at the forefront of the fight against Covid. In France, however, the first doses – 19,500 in all, they arrived in Paris shortly before 7 this morning. In the French capital, the vaccinations will begin tomorrow, starting from two institutions for the elderly.
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