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AGI – The anti-Covid vaccine will be free for all and the armed forces will also be involved in the distribution, which will be “centralized.” The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, illustrated in the Senate the new measures to face the pandemic emergency, but also the planning status of the vaccination campaign, which should start at the end of January.
Who will be the first to get vaccinated?
“The first to receive the vaccines will be social and health workers, RSA residents and the elderly,” he said, then specified thatIt is not the intention of the government to make the vaccine mandatory.“Our goal is undoubtedly to achieve herd immunity as soon as possible,” he added, and explained that during the vaccination campaign “we will evaluate the membership rate of citizens.
When will the vaccines start?
“To date, two dates of Ema who was able to express herself on December 29 on the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine and on January 12 on Moderna, “said Speranza.” As I speak – she specified – there are no other dates set by Ema. The contracts signed by the European Commission, from which the deliveries to our country derive, must always be considered the best scenario and always subordinate to the authorization processes that, I repeat, still do not have absolute certainty ”.
How many doses of the vaccine will reach Italy
“These two companies in the first quarter of next year, by contract – he continued – should supply us, respectively, 8 million and 749 thousand doses of Pfizer-Biontech and 1 million and 346 thousand doses of Moderna.” Minister Speranza explained that “the European Medicines Agency, the EMA, agitates contribute to the acceleration of the process, without losing its critical role, it is proceeding with a completed procedure defined as a ‘continuous review’, consisting of evaluate the individual parts of the file as presented by companies, rather than waiting for a complete dossier to be submitted. This procedure, without affecting the overall assessment, significantly shortens the time and may create the conditions for the granting of a first marketing authorization already within one year. “
“Italy has chosen 202 million and 573 thousand doses of the vaccine, to vaccinate the entire population. The first doses may begin to be available from January. It is likely that two doses will be needed for each vaccine.” “From the strategic plan that I present in Parliament today, an executive plan will be derived that will be permanently adjusted based on the authorization processes of regulatory bodies and the consequent effective availability of vaccines. I have always thought that science would get us out of this crisis. It is still early and, I repeat, you have to be careful, but we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. ”
