From doses to reserves, the vaccine plan region by region (with the first disputes)

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The first Italians will be vaccinated against Covid already immediately after Christmas and before the beginning of 2021 if the EMA at the meeting scheduled for December 21 gives the green light to the drug Pfizer. This is the last moment that arose during the meeting between the Government and the Regions that gave the green light to the vaccination plan and that on Thursday, December 17, will be formally presented to the State-Regions Conference.

After the European Vaccine Day, before the end of the year, with symbolic vaccinations in several countries in addition to Italy (Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland), the first mass vaccination session will be launched, Aimed at the categories that the Government and Parliament have established as priorities: health and social-health workers, staff working in public and private hospitals, guests and staff of nursing homes. The office of Commissioner Domenico Arcuri has announced that in this first phase (presumably from mid-January, ed) the vaccination campaign in Italy will begin with the first 1,833,975 doses of the Covid 19 vaccine that will be distributed by Pfizer and sent to Regions.

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In Lombardy 305 thousand doses, 180 thousand in Emilia Romagna and Lazio

Lombardy will receive the largest number of doses of Pfizer’s anti-Covid vaccine in the first delivery to Italy (almost 1.9 million doses), for which the date is not yet known. The region most affected by the epidemic will have 304,955 ‘vaccines’, according to the office of the extraordinary commissioner for emergencies Domenico Arcuri. Followed by Emilia Romagna (183,138 doses), Lazio (179,818), Piedmont (170,995), Veneto (164,278) Campania (135,890), Sicily (129,047), Tuscany (116,240), Puglia (94,526) and Liguria (60,142). In the queue, Valle d’Aosta with 3,334 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. The figures, however, were questioned by Campania during the meeting with Ministers Boccia and Speranza and Commissioner Arcuri. The Region led by Vincenzo De Luca actually spoke of a plan “not in accordance with objective criteria of needs”. And he proposed that the population of individual regions be taken into account in the initial vaccine distribution. This proposal was not accepted.

2.5 ml dose in second supply from Pfizer to Italy

The second supply of vaccine doses guaranteed by Pfizer to Italy will be 2,507,700 doses – always informs the office of Commissioner Domenico Arcuri – which will allow in the coming weeks to administer the second dose to the priority categories (health and social workers, personnel operating in public and private hospitals, guests and staff of nursing homes, ed), as well as to start vaccinating the most fragile population ”.

As of December 16, health requests for vaccination campaign.

Starting December 16, doctors, nurses and health aides who want to contribute to the implementation of the Sars-Cov-2 vaccine administration plan, will be able to submit their application electronically. This was announced by the office of the extraordinary emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri. “The registration portal is active with the list of medical and surgical graduates qualified to practice medicine and registered in professional registers, as well as nurses and health assistants registered in their respective professional registers: https://personalevaccini.invitalia.it / “. Meanwhile, the procedure to reserve vaccines has already started in Tuscany. “Yesterday,” explained the president of the Region Eugenio Giani, we formulated a request that is to reach 50,000 health workers available for the vaccine: at this moment we have 35,000 requests. “