VACCINE in ITALY, it will soon be for the OLDER, TEACHERS and YOUNG PEOPLE. The updated CALENDAR »ILMETEO.it

Here is the updated VACCINE DISTRIBUTION PLANThe distribution plan of vaccinations It has been updated. The first doses were administered on December 27 throughout Europe, inaugurating V-Day. Italy aspires to a coverage of 80% and that is why it has Option 202 million doses of serum, 13.4% from the EU. In addition to vaccines Pfizer and modern Important news from the UK for the one developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford: is “effective in 95% and is capable of 100% elimination of “severe symptoms that lead to hospitalizations for Covid-19.

But what are the categories that will be vaccinated first? The first 10 million doses in the first three months of 2021 will be used to vaccinate the categories identified as priority, that is, health and social workers and operators (1,404,037 people), in residential facility staff and guests for the elderly (570,287) and those over 80 years of age (4,442,048). Immediately afterwards it will be the turn of men and women between 60 and 79 years old (equal to 13,432,005 people) and the population with at least one chronic comorbidity (7,403,578). In spring and summer (second and third trimester) will be until teachers and school staffand other categories of the population belonging to essential services such as the forces of order, prison personnel and community places. In the fourth quarter everyone else.

Italy, we remember, you will receive as a whole 26.92 million Pfizer-Biontech vaccines, of which 8,749 million in the first quarter, 8.1 in the second quarter, 10.1 in the third. The acceleration of the European Medicines Agency for the vaccine of the American company Moderna, whose green light is scheduled for January 6, will bring 10.8 million doses: 1.4 in the first quarter, 4.7 in the second and many others in the third. The 38 million vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna will be joined by AstraZeneca.