Next week the first Johnson & Johnson vaccines will arrive in Italy while the first lists of the categories already vaccinated are drawn up. “On April 19th we will have the first delivery of Johnson & Johnson vaccines. This is a quantitatively modest delivery: 18 thousand doses which will mainly go to prisons for the staff who work there and for the prisoners ". This was announced by Alessio D'Amato, Lazio regional councilor for health, on the occasion of a visit to the vaccination hub at San Giovanni in Rome.
Meanwhile, according to the data released by the Ministry of Health, in the last 24 hours in Italy they registered 17.567 new positive cases (yesterday 18.938). The new deaths are 344 (yesterday 718); the discharged healed are 20.483 (yesterday 26.175). Overall, the positive cases are 533.085 (yesterday 536.361). The swabs carried out are 320.892 (yesterday 362.973); in intensive care they are hospitalized 3.588 Covid patients. They also remain in home isolation 501.843 people infected with Coronavirus.
Johnson & Johnson vaccines arrive on April 19th
While waiting for the arrival of Johnson & Johnson vaccines, the 'rankings' of Italians vaccinated so far are being drawn up. THE38,79 per cent of those over 80 in Italy were also vaccinated with a booster while 68,20 per cent received only the first dose. This is the figure reported in the government report, updated this morning. The report shows that the percentages for Italians between 70 and 79 years of age are much lower. In that age group, in fact, only 2,48 percent were vaccinated and only 19,89 percent received the first dose. On the other hand, higher numbers for RSA guests: 75,53 percent were vaccinated while the first dose was administered at 91,25 percent. Finally, for health and social health personnel the percentages are 75,29 per cent with two doses and 91,63 per cent with one dose.
The optimal dose interval is 21 days for Pfizer-Biontech's Comirnaty vaccine and 28 days for Covid -19 Moderna vaccine, respectively. However, should it be necessary to delay the second dose by a few days, it is not possible in any case to exceed the interval of 42 days for both mRNA vaccines. It is reiterated that to obtain optimal protection it is necessary to complete the vaccination cycle with the second dose ". These are the provisions of the Technical-Scientific Commission ofAIFA attached to the new circular of the Ministry of Health 'Sars-CoV2 vaccination'.
