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Delays – Pfizer only promised in a press release that it will recover with the “initial schedule for distribution to the EU starting the week of January 25”. In addition, the 165,000 dose cut announced on Friday – which has reduced deliveries to our country for this week by 29%, from 562,770 doses to 397,800 – Pfizer only made it known at 5 pm on Monday, when the vials of the vaccine should already be in Italy, which would have delayed even more the distribution, bringing the doses, just over 241 thousand, only on Wednesday.
The commissioner intervened on the delays Bows: “The exchange of communications with Pfizer did not have the effects we expected”, so much so that the company announced further reductions. Hence the decision to proceed with legal action “to protect Italians” in all civil and criminal offices where this is possible.
Ema: “Pfizer delays production agreements” – According to the European Medicines Agency (Ema), the misunderstandings and delays are due to the fact that the company is trying to increase production and, given the numerous orders received, it has not had the opportunity to source raw materials. A new problem that runs the risk of not only postponing the vaccination campaign for several weeks, but also creating more than a few problems in the administration of the second dose of boosters, scheduled for 21 days after the first. The EU Commissioner for Health Stella kyriakides He said “we are constantly working with Pfizer-Biontech to support capacity and strengthen production in the EU.”
Regions ask for guarantees – But everyone is asking for guarantees, as Stefano Bonaccini, president of the Conference of the Regions, reiterates: the reductions “are only temporary.” And let the government decide where the vaccines go, not Pfizer. Therefore, the most concrete hypothesis is to review the distribution plan so that the offices of the Commissioner are the ones that establish the remodeling of the quantities and places of delivery. Also guaranteeing, based on the criteria already defined, less doses but for everyone.
Boccia: “Legal Actions Agreed Against Pfizer” – There will be “concerted lawsuits” against Pfizer for cutting and delaying the delivery of vaccine doses. Thus, the Minister of Regional Affairs Francesco Boccia in the meeting with the Regions. “We demand clarity and respect from our country on the European agreements made,” he added, underlining the need for no more “unilateral reductions without prior notice.”
“We need a solidarity agreement between the Regions” – “It is necessary to allow the Regions a solidarity agreement that guarantees referrals to all.” This is what Boccia would have said during the summit with the Regions to take stock of vaccines after the cut in deliveries decided by Pfizer. Precisely after these cuts, added the minister, “we have an urgent need to reduce the distribution of vaccines this week in Italy.”
Aifa: “Serious concern about Pfizer’s delay” – Meanwhile, after Arcuri, AIFA CEO Nicola Magrini also criticized Pfizer’s decisions. “It is a very worrying delay” also because “everything was communicated in the last minute”. However, Magrini stresses that “if it is a delay of only one week, the consequences may not be so serious.”
The consequences of delays: However, delivery delays have already produced a negative result: the postponement of at least two weeks of the start of the vaccination campaign for those over 80 and 400 thousand cancer, hematology and cardiology patients. Lazio, after the first doses administered yesterday, has set the opening on February 1, Piedmont on January 30, while Puglia will not open reserves until it is clarified.
New peak in Britain, Germany extends lockdown until February 15 – Covid gallops in Europe. New absolute peak of 1,610 Covid deaths in Britain, struggling with a more aggressive variant of the virus than the national lockdown is only slowly slowing down. In Germany, however, the state and the Laenders agreed to extend the shutdown until February 15. Gastronomy, retail stores and leisure activities remain closed.
United States, more than 400 thousand dead – In the US, a new sad record linked to the coronavirus pandemic has been reached: there are more than 400 thousand (400,022) victims caused by Covid-19 in the country, according to updated data from Johns Hopkins University. The cases, since the beginning of the emergency, are 24,163,707.
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