Vaccine the first three Italians in Spallanzani – Chronicle

12/27/2020 Health, Italy



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Professor Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, nurse Claudia Alivernini and health social worker Omar Altobelli, were the first in Italy to receive the Covid-19 vaccine this morning at the Spallanzani National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Rome.

The anti-Covid vaccine to the first three Italians in Spallanzani

“Today Italy wakes up #Vaccineday. This date will accompany us forever. We start with health workers and the most vulnerable groups and then extend to the entire population the possibility of obtaining immunity and definitively defeating this virus ”. Thus Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on twitter on V-Day in Italy and Europe.

“It’s a day we’ve been waiting for in timeHealth Minister Roberto Speranza said so immediately after the first three vaccinations at Spallanzani in Rome. “The light is coming but we have to hold out for a few more months. It is not over yet and we must always respect the rules. “

“Today is a day of hope, but we still have months of a tough battle ahead of us.” The leader of the Democratic Party and president of the Lazio Region Nicola Zingaretti in Spallanzani says this after the first vaccines. “Today is the beginning of a new stage – he added – but it will take a long time to get results, because millions of people will have to be vaccinated. We need a massive campaign that reaches the people in a few months ”.

The 9,750 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine delivered to all European countries today by vaccine day are a “symbolic” number. The actual distribution – says the Ministry of Health in a note – will start from the week beginning December 28 and around 470 thousand doses will arrive in Italy each week.

“The vaccine is free for everyone but not mandatoryThus the extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri at the Spallanzani in Rome where the first three vaccinations against Covid-19 began. “I think – said Arcuri – that the number of people vaccinated will be much higher than we think. Italians are much better than what we try to represent them. “

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