Covid, Great Britain approves the Astrazeneca vaccine. Pfizer doses arrive in Italy

Rome, December 30, 2020 – Green light in the UK at Oxford vaccine – AstraZeneca. The go-ahead came from the Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency, according to local media. It is the second vaccine approved on the island, after that of Pfizer, heThe vaccination campaign will begin next week, on January 4th. This was announced by British Health Minister Matt Hancock, who called the approval of the vaccine “fantastic news.” And he added: “We can get out of this situation in spring.”

Covid in Italy, the newsletter of December 30

The BBC notes that the approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine constitutes a major turning point and will lead to a massive expansion of the UK immunization campaign, where it has already been ordered. 100 million doses, enough to vaccinate 50 million people. AstraZeneca’s drug was designed in early 2020, tested with the first volunteer in April, and has since undergone large-scale clinical trials with thousands of people. Unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech drug, the Oxford-AstraZeneca drug is easier to store because you don’t need temperatures below 70 degrees. Just yesterday, the EMA, the European drug agency, estimated that the approval of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe in January was “unlikely.”

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The Pfizer vaccine in Italy

Meanwhile they arrived at 4 a.m. last night nine planes with which the Pfizer he has the vaccines were transported to Italy. The planes have landed at nine airports in different parts of the Italian territory and the distribution at the administration points. This is what is learned from the offices of the extraordinary commissioner for the emergency of the Coronavirus Domenico Arcuri. Of the approximately 470,000 planned doses, 75% have already arrived, while tomorrow the distribution of the remaining 25% will continue. As of now, the weekly distribution is fully operational, which foresees the arrival of some 470 thousand weekly doses between now and March, for a total of 8.7 million doses.

And receive results of the vaccination campaign there will be “when vaccinated on 10/15 million people “he said Giuseppe Conte at the end of the year conference. And therefore “not before April – concluded the premier -, in spring we can have the first significant results ”.

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