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Green light to covid vaccination plan for Italy, announced today the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid19 emergency after the final meeting with the representatives of the government and the Regions. The first doses to reach Italy after the approval of the EMA, whose approval is expected before Christmas, will be the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine. The vaccination campaign in Italy could start already in December and, according to the purchase programs agreed by the EU to our country, they will initially touch 1,833,975 doses.
At the end of the year European Vaccine Day
If, as expected, the EMA approves, in the session of December 21, the placing on the market of the vaccine and after the subsequent, almost immediate, AIFA validation, there will be, already before the end of the year, the “European Vaccine Day”, in that the first citizens will be vaccinated on the same day, as agreed between the Health Ministers of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Holland, Spain and Switzerland ”, they explain from the office of the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid19 emergency.
Vaccination plan: the first doses region by region
Based on these forecasts and the figures of the doses that will arrive in Italy for the first phase of the vaccination campaign this morning at the State-Regions Conference, the Government, the Regions and the Commissioner shared the subdivision of the first doses between the different Regions. These are the doses that will be initially sent to the Regions:
Abruzzo: 25,480
Basilicata: 19,455
Calabria: 53,131
Campania: 135,890
Emilia Romagna: 183,138
Friuli VG: 50,094
Lazio: 179,818
Liguria: 60,142
Lombardy: 304,955
March: 37,872
Molise: 9,294
PA Bolzano: 27,521
PA Trento: 18,659
Piedmont: 170,995
Apulia: 94,526
Sardinia: 33,801
Sicily: 129,047
Tuscany: 116,240
Umbria: 16,308
Aosta Valley: 3,334
Veneto: 164,278
Pfizer’s first vaccines will be used to vaccinate half of the indicated population
As mentioned is in total 1,833,975 doses However, they do not correspond to so many vaccinated since each person will have to undergo two boosters and it will still be necessary to keep some reserve doses for safety. The audience of vaccinated people can only be expanded later with the arrival of the first doses of a second vaccine candidate against covid and subsequent doses from Pfizer. As for the latter, Pfizer’s second guaranteed supply will be 2,507,700 twoi, which will allow in the coming weeks to vaccinate others belonging to the priority categories, as well as to initiate the vaccination of the most fragile population.
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