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“This is an area strategic, located in central Italy. For example, to get to Sicily from this site it takes between 50 minutes and an hour. And above all, as a military base, operational 24 hours on 24, it will be possible to guarantee maximum security“Explains the major of the Air Force, Matteo masetti, with respect to the capabilities of the site.
For the government, the ‘Mario de Bernardi’ airport should be considered the best option, as well as the possibility of safely storing cold vials in their different hangar, also for him vaccine distribution. This is because the Air Force headquarters will also be the starting point for the next operation, named with the evocative name ‘Eos‘, like the Greek goddess of dawn, that of the transport. In fact, the vehicles of the Army and other Armed Forces will leave the ‘shelters’ of the base and will have to deliver the same roads in the so-called regionali ‘sub-hub’as well as towards me one thousand five hundred administration points identified throughout the national territory and already indicated in the Vaccine Plan. An operation developed by the joint operational high command, which already manages all Italian missions in the world. The Pfizer vaccine will be an exception (with the first 3.4 million doses scheduled for January), for which an ad hoc cold chain has been set up for its storage: thus the manufacturer itself will transport the vials to 300 vaccination points, already indicated by the territories.
The installation operation in Pratica di Mare is still in its early stages, awaiting further information from the Ministry of Defense. They explain from the Air Force how, of course, “bases, personnel and facilities” will be provided, depending on what is requested: “We are waiting for the next details to be able to organize ourselves.” For storage it will be possible to use one of several hangar of the base, like theAir terminal operations center, “The structure that deals with the management of material in transit for the Pratica di Mare airport”, adds Major Masetti. But it will not be the only one that can be used.
Certainly, the Pratica di Mare base has already been a protagonist in the months of the pandemic, especially in the early stages: “A entry point Health, for the first examination of compatriots repatriated from China and Japan with the Air Force KC767 aircraft. And all have been coordinated and managed air transport flights in biocontainment, for the safe and completely isolated transport of people suffering from highly infectious diseases, as is the case of Covid-19 ″. Now, the task will be to set up the national hub, waiting to receive soon the millions of vials of vaccines, which will then be distributed throughout the country.
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