distribution will start from hospitals and RSA

The 3.4 million doses of vaccine Pfizer will be used to administer 1.7 million in hospitals and Rsa. “For the other incoming vaccines, intended instead for all other categories of citizens, different methods of administration will be provided, in line with ordinary vaccination management, through a large-scale campaign (eg drive- through) from people with a high degree of fragility. ”The special emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri sent a letter to the presidents of the regions with the “Collection of information for the feasibility plan of the first phase of administration of the vaccine COVID-19».

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The times are adjusted even if the date is discordant since it is reported on Friday, November 23, while next Friday is 21 and 23 will be Monday. In addition to this inspection, the regions must communicate “for each province, the number and name of the hospitals within which it is considered useful for the vaccine to be delivered and administered; this hospital unit must be able to vaccinate at least 2,000 people referred to the aforementioned objectives (or more people but with multiples of 1,000) in 15 days ”. B. For each hospital unit thus identified, the number of personnel operating in it is required, for any reason; the number of health and socio-health personnel operating in the area, who will be able to reach the hospital in no more than 30-60 minutes, the availability of freezers inside, with the outstanding characteristics, and the relative volume of available space.

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The delivery characteristics of this first vaccine require, to ensure its integrity, “that it be exclusively delivered by the supplier directly to each point of administration (in special storage bags containing a maximum of 5 boxes of 975 doses each)” .

Also for the conservation, of the doses:

15 days from delivery in supplier’s storage bags

six months, if you have cold rooms at a temperature of -75 ° C ± 15 ° C.

Finally, the administration characteristics require that the vaccine be used no later than 6 hours after removal from the bags or the storage cell. Also consider that each vial of vaccine contains 5 doses.

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