By next March in Italy there will be 7 million vaccinated. These are the forecasts of the experts; in the meantime the first 249.600 doses of the vaccine arrive early tomorrow Astrazeneca. The doses will then be stored in the Pratica di Mare hub and in the following days, barring unforeseen events, they will be distributed in the administration centers in the various regions.
The doses were initially expected to arrive in Italy on February 15th. On Tuesday, barring unforeseen events, the under-55 vaccination campaign with doses of AstraZeneca will begin. The vaccine will arrive in Italy for the first time tomorrow and distribution in 293 administration centers should be completed next Monday.
By March 7 million vaccinated
By March "we could get close to vaccinating 7 million Italians". The Commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri said, underlining that "this is what can be done" since in the first quarter Italy will have 50 per cent of the vaccine doses that were initially foreseen. “In January we received 2,3 million doses, in February if the forecasts are respected and we are confident in this, we will receive 4,2 and in March 8,2 million. In total we will have 14,7 million doses in the first quarter - concluded Arcuri - when we should have had 28 million ".
In Italy there are 293 vaccine destination points. The administrations will then also take place in other structures, such as residences for the elderly. And when all the elderly have been vaccinated in the 1.300 administration points initially planned, these will stop being used and others will gradually be added, decided by the regions. To these will also be added the primrose-shaped gazebos, added Arcuri.
Increase the production of vaccines
“There are Italian facilities that would be able to increase the quantities of vaccines produced, the discussion is underway at a European level and we hope that it will be successful. In that case we will be ready to make the Italian plants available ". He always said it the emergency commissioner, Domenico Arcuri. "Italy together with some other EU countries has promoted this request within the European Commission due to the scarcity of doses".
Today's data
According to data released by the Ministry of Health, the new positive cases today are 14.218 (yesterday 13.659); the new deaths are 377 (yesterday 422). The discharged healed in the last 24 hours are 14.995 (yesterday 17.680) Altogether the positive cases are 429.118, in practice 1.159 less than yesterday. The swabs carried out are 270. 507; 2.142 Coronavirus positive subjects are hospitalized in intensive care while 407.401 remain in home isolation.
