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The trip of the 9,750 “Italian” doses of vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech he left two days ago, when they left the Puurs plant in Belgium. Yesterday, aboard a temperature-controlled black van, they crossed the Brennero, making their official entry into Italy, and then headed for the cAserma of Tor di Quinto in Rome, escorted by carabinieri cars. At 10 they will leave for the Spallanzani. Just in time for him Vaccine day December 27, the date on which the first doses of the Covid vaccine will be symbolically administered throughout Europe.
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Vaccine Day December 27
The organizing machine is ready. “We carry out an inspection in the storage area – confirms the Minister of Health of the Lazio Region, Alessio D’Amato – and everything works perfectly ». However, it will still take 24 hours for the vaccination campaign to begin: the doses to be administered in Rome will remain in Spallanzani; all the others will pass through the hub of the Pratica di Mare military airport where 5 planes, 60 vehicles and about 250 soldiers will be transferred to the other regions so that on the morning of the 27th Vaccine Day can be activated throughout the country .
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A symbolic day that will see the women protagonists: the first to be vaccinated in Rome will be the nurse Claudia alivernini, 29 years old who works in Spallanzani; In Lombardy, on the other hand, it will be the turn of two workers from the Niguarda in Milan, the social and health worker Adele Gelfo and the cleaning lady Grazia Presta, and Annalisa Malara, the anesthetist who discovered patient one, Mattia, in the hospital Codogno. . Also in Naples, the first vaccinated will be a woman, Filomena Ricciardi, an emergency doctor from Cardarelli. While waiting for the first administrations to begin, the political debate around the vaccine has already begun.
After Vaccine Day, subsequent doses will arrive directly from the Pfizer factory at the 300 administration sites indicated by Commissioner for Emergency Domenico Arcuri and at that moment the real vaccination campaign for healthcare workers will really begin. RSA staff and guests. With a constant eye on the trend in epidemic numbers, an increase in the curve would slow down vaccines.
The reactions of politicians
“We had said that before the end of the year we would start with vaccinations and that is how it will be – says the Chancellor, Luigi di Maio – We will regain our freedoms and we will embrace again ». From the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, comes the invitation to politicians to lead by example. “Whoever has political responsibility today – he emphasizes – must feel the responsibility to say, without buts, that he is going to be vaccinated.” And if for Matteo salvini “It is important to explain, accompany, educate but never force” the more ambiguous it is Beppe Grillo. “I am waiting for the vaccines – says the founder of M5s – I am waiting for them all, I will want to make them all together in a single syringe”.
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