«If the drug agencies in Italy (Aifa) and in Europe (Ema) respect the calendar, the first vaccinations will be symbolically at the end of December. And massively at the beginning of January ». Domenico Arcuri, extraordinary commissioner for the Covid emergency, tells al Corriere della Sera the stages of the plan for the distribution of the anti Covid vaccine in Italy.
The European green light is expected on Monday 21st. The vaccine is Pfizer-BioNTech against Covid. The second step is to the Italian Medicines Agency.
The first Italians will be vaccinated on days when there is no red zone, therefore between 27 and 29 December. The first should be a nurse from the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. Vaccine Day 2020 should be common for the European Union. In addition to Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Holland, Spain and even Switzerland outside the EU have already joined.
Almost two million doses will arrive from mid-January and will go to health service operators and staff, guests and workers in nursing homes. Also subsequent doses will be distributed according to priority categories. Lombardy, with more than 300,000 doses, will be the region that will receive the largest number of vials, followed by Emilia-Romagna and Lazio. To do the vaccinations you need staff and a search is open on the personalvaccini.invitalia.it website.
Arcuri explains: «We will start with the 11 million inhabitants who are over sixty years old, starting from the oldest down. In the second phase of vaccinations, workers who perform essential services that put them at risk must also be included: law enforcement, school, public transport and even prisons“. More than 27 million people are expected to be vaccinated before the summer. Italy has optioned 202,573,000 doses of vaccine in total, but delivery and distribution times are uncertain.
The Commissioner will send the regions some sort of instructions manual for the vaccine and directions for the administration procedure. The Tuscany region, which has already opened the portal for booking vaccinations, has had almost 39 thousand requests in one day among health workers, guests and employees of the RSA.
It is a sign that there is desire and will to get the vaccine. According to a poll Emg-Different / Adnkronos eight out of ten Italians say yes to the anti-Covid vaccine. Although more than half of those in favor would not want to do it right away, but in a few months, awaiting evidence of its validity. 19% remain against: they would not do it in any case. More than half of the respondents, 53%, are against the requirement of the vaccine.
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