Covid emergency, the vaccine Pfizer it will also be produced in Italy. The company Thermo Fisher will provide sterile filling and finished product preparation services at its Monza facility later this year.
The Pfizer vaccine will be produced in Monza
“Thermo Fisher Scientific - explains a press release - is proud to work with its customers globally in the fight against Covid-19. Thus offering important support in the development and production of vaccines and therapies, including the Pfizer vaccine-Biontech".
“Thermo Fisher is in fact working as part of Pfizer's global vaccine manufacturing network. The company will provide contract manufacturing services in Italy for the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine to eradicate the pandemic from Coronavirus. The vaccine produced in Monza will then be distributed in various markets.
Today's data
Meanwhile, as regards the trend of the contagion curve in our country, the data of the last 24 hours recorded 23.696 new positive cases (yesterday 21.267). The new deaths are 460, exactly the same number as yesterday; the discharged healed today are 21.673 (yesterday 20.132). Overall, the positive cases are 562.856, in practice 1.548 more than yesterday. The swabs carried out are 349.472; the ICU patients are 3.620 with 260 new daily admissions. 562.856 people infected with the virus still remain in home isolation.
In addition there are also the evaluations related to the last monitoring of the Gimbe Foundation. “Thanks to the restrictions in the middle of the third wave of Covid-19, the first signs of improvement are seen - the Foundation's experts reiterated - After four consecutive weeks the trend of new weekly cases is reversed. And, again, it reduces the percentage increase of new cases. However, the weight on intensive care units and care is rising and in 10 regions the percentage increase in new cases is still growing ”.
