Covid-19, Hope: “Unprecedented vaccination campaign, since the end of January”

This was stated by the Minister of Health, on the occasion of the congress of the Federation of Italian Pharmacists Orders (Fofi). “The anti-Covid vaccination campaign will require an extraordinary commitment from all energies in the field,” he added.

“There will be an anti-Covid vaccination campaign in the country that will probably be unprecedented and that will require an extraordinary commitment of all energies in the field.” This was stated on the occasion of the congress of the Federation of Italian Pharmaceutical Orders (Fofi), by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza. The campaign “for the Covid vaccine that will arrive, we hope will be developed from the end of January, when it appears at this possible moment that we will be able to have the first doses,” he added.

Esperanza: “First doses to more exposed categories and the elderly”

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During his speech, the Minister of Health stressed that the first doses of the vaccine that will be available “will be dedicated to the most exposed categories, starting with health professionals, the frail, the elderly in health care homes in Rsa and the elderly with pathologies “. .

Esperanza: “There are not enough signs of resistance, resist”

Commenting on the latest numbers on the health emergency linked to the spread of the coronavirus in Italy, Speranza said: “The first signs of a countertrend are seen after weeks of rapid growth in contagion, but they are still completely insufficient. The pressure on health services is tremendous. Rt is falling but it will still have to structurally fall below 1. Only then will we see more significant results. ”“ We will still have to endure a significant phase. Oh, to interpret these first signs as a free whole ”, he added, speaking at the seventh edition of Farmacistapiù, from 20 to 22 November. The Minister of Health, during the webinar “The European Union in the challenge of Covid-19”, attributed the decrease in the spread of the infection (Rt) to the restrictive measures adopted by the Government, considered as “the only real tool” . that now we have to lower the contagion and put it under control. ”“ It is clear that they cause sacrifices at an economic and cultural level, but as the preliminary figures of the last days in our country show, they are working, ”he added.