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Good news on the vaccine front in Italy. Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine doses will arrive in Italy in the second half of April and in that period the goal is to administer 500,000 doses a day. This was reported by the commissioner for the Covid emergency, Francesco Figliuolo, speaking to the press after his vaccination on the Passeig de Cecchignola in Rome.
Rome, vaccination of fragile patients on the road begins in Cecchignola
Meanwhile, the extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid emergency, Francesco Figliuolo, and the Head of Civil Protection, Fabrizio Curcio, were vaccinated today on the Paseo de la Defensa by Cecchignola in Rome. Both, who were waiting in line with other citizens and soldiers following the usual administration protocols, were injected with the dose of Astrazeneca in one of the tents installed in the structure.
Cancellations
«In some regions, the cancellation of vaccine reservations with AstraZeneca it was 20%, in others it was 10%, and in others it was not yet. So the differential is practically zero, “said the commissioner for the Covid emergency, Francesco Figliuolo. The general also explained about the vaccination campaign that now “there will be an acceleration.”
Therefore, the first doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be in Italy in the second half of April, but they will be “limited quantities that will then increase from May and June.”
Meanwhile, the shipment of the AstraZeneca vials has been postponed for this week and the cargo will be recovered on March 24, when with the new arrival a total of 279 thousand doses will be delivered. Fortunately, the requests are supported by the more than 333,600 of Moderna stored in the military center of Pratica di Mare. On the tables with the promises and delays of the different pharmaceutical companies, in the hands of the Commissioner for the Covid Emergency, Francesco FigliuoloThere are the figures for a country that will have to administer half of the potential provided by the Plan for one more month (around 150,000 daily doses when traveling).
But for the general the objective remains the same: “500 thousand daily inoculations from the third week of April, a figure that will rise if we are even better,” he says, “And the four days lost after the suspension of AstraZeneca can be recovered in brief».
In some regions the cancellation of Anglo-Swedish vaccine stocks was 20%, in others 10% and in others like Lazio there was none. So the differential is practically zero, said Commissioner Covid, who immediately points to “an acceleration.” And for the general, even the new weekly blackout in AstraZeneca arrivals will not have an impact on the vaccination campaign. We are already working on the future, when 52 million doses are expected to arrive in the second quarter of the year: there are regions that have had organizational problems that are being solved: we are probing situations to understand how to better support them ”, explains the general, who will soon It will have its offices in the Palazzo Caprara in Rome, in the former headquarters of the Defense General Staff.
To strengthen the territories beyond the current figures that are still relatively small and beyond the possibilities already declared, even Civil Protection has just deployed its civilian troops: Curcio has just activated the Department’s national voluntary service, all the structures are enabled to operate. If in total, on this front, there are resources for 300 thousand people willing to make themselves available to the country, “those thousands of units that the Regions will request to support vaccination facilities will commit themselves.”
Volunteers who, however, must all be immunized before being operational. From logistical needs to staff shortages, the wants are different and the needs map is still under construction. While waiting for inoculations in pharmacies and companies, the number of vaccination points has already grown by 25% since the beginning of March, from 1510 to 1868.
Pediatricians will soon join the system, who, according to the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, will be at the forefront, starting with the parents of the most fragile children. Therefore, the categories begin to rise: the administrations to fragile citizens in the capital have just begun, right in Cecchignola and from next week we will go fully with vaccines for whole days. Even the experimentation does not stop: the Italian vaccine ReiThera started in Caserta, with exceptional testimonies such as the writer Enrico Carofiglio and the journalist Rai Geo Nocchetti. But we need to find production centers and unlock licenses: in an appeal to Mattarella, a hundred local administrators asked the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to take sides to stop the patents of anti-Covid serums.
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