The vax day is ideally uniting all the countries of the European Union that today officially started the vaccination campaign against Covid. “Today is an exciting day: the vaccination campaign starts in all EU countries. But there is still a long way to go and caution and prudence are needed ”. Thus the extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri to the Spallanzani of Rome, where the Italian vaccination campaign started.
“It's a day we've been waiting for for a long time. The light arrives but we have to resist a few more months. It's not over yet and we always need to respect the rules ”. The said health minister Roberto Speranza immediately after the first three vaccinations at Spallanzani in Rome. Meanwhile, the monitoring of infections continues: today's new positive cases are 8.913 (yesterday 10.431) while the new deaths are 298 (yesterday 268). The discharged healed are 7.798 (yesterday 9104); altogether the positive cases are 581.760 (yesterday 580.943).
Vax day less than a year after the outbreak of the pandemic
Less than a year has passed between the 'official' start of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic and the Vax Day European today, December 27th. The first outbreak of the new Coronavirus was reported by China to the WHO on December 31st last year, while the genetic sequence of the virus, essential to be able to design the sera, was made public for the first time on 10 January.
Work in laboratories around the world to develop a vaccine began in practice with the publication of the first genome of the virus. The first to start human tests in Western countries were Pfizer and Modern, who have decided to take the path of vaccines a mRna (messenger Rna). In these vaccines the virus or part of it is not inoculated, but the 'instructions' for producing the antibodies are introduced.
Vaccination has already begun in other countries of the world
In various countries, from the USA to Canada to Britain the anti-Covid vaccination campaign has already started a few weeks ago. According to the site Ourworldindata have already had the vaccine 3,31 million of people in the world, with China and the USA which have exceeded one million inoculated doses and Great Britain which is around 800 thousand. Israel and Bahrain on the other hand, they are the nations with the highest number of vaccines per capita, with over 2 percent of the population vaccinated. In our country 9.750 doses have already arrived. "The actual distribution - says the Ministry of Health - will start next week: Italy will receive about 470 thousand doses every week".
