Covid: new doctors and nurses arrive to implement the vaccination campaign. Meanwhile, while Pfizer is still late with the delivery of vaccines, the millions of doses ordered from Astrezeneca are expected to arrive. “At the moment the information we have foresees a delivery of 8 million doses of Astrazeneca in the first quarter of the year. How many doses of vaccine will we have and when, also in the light of what has happened so far, I would say that it is good to wait for the conclusion of the discussions with the company.
Astrezeneca has already filled in large quantities of doses and therefore should have them in its warehouses. When they will be there and in what time, we will see it soon ". These are the considerations of the Commissioner ofCovid emergency Domenico Arcuri. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health makes it known that the new positive cases of today are 8652 (yesterday 11.629) while the new deaths are 420 (yesterday 299). The discharged healed are 15.787 (yesterday 10.885). The overall positive cases they are today continue to remain below 500 thousand units 491.630, 7.648 less than yesterday.
Slow motion vaccination campaign
"Due to the delays in the delivery of vaccines by Pfizer - continued Arcuri - Italy has gone from an average of 80 thousand people vaccinated per day, with a peak of 92 thousand, to an average of 28 thousand per day. The delays significantly slowed the vaccination campaign. This is the consequence of the need to keep the doses needed for the recalls in the warehouses.
We have shared with the regions the criteria to be put in place to remedy the delay in the arrival of doses. Our campaign slows down due to lack of raw materials. If there are fewer vaccines, most of them are needed for the second dose and fewer are left to vaccinate categories of people chosen for the first booster. We look forward to the decisions that the EMA will implement on the marketing of Astrazeneca. We will see under what conditions ”.
Covid, new doctors and nurses arrive
“From this week - said Arcuri - the first ones will arrive in the regions 2.679 doctors and nurses who participated in the announcement. At the moment they are 20.795 the nominations already screened. The first doctors and nurses underwent an evaluation, therefore, from the next few days we will send these health workers to the territories to strengthen the administration of vaccines ".
“We have also published the tender for the construction of the temporary pavilions for the vaccination mass: the 'primroses' designed by the architect Stefano Boeri ”. Arcuri pointed out: “We asked the companies to provide all the necessary information; the deadline for submitting offers is Wednesday 27 January. We will also work to begin the construction of these temporary structures. That is, in order to be ready to begin, hopefully soon, the mass vaccination campaign ”.
