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The machine of the vaccination campaign in Italy continues to move forward: the age group ea is lowered again those over 50 will be able to book.
Starting next May 10, the Commissioner Structure has ordered the start of reservations for the administration of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine also for the over 50s, or until those born in 1971. This was announced by the emergency commissioner Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, “without prejudice to priority for people suffering from pathologies or situations of immunological compromise,” he said.
A turning point that some large Regions had already announced, such as Lazio, Lombardy and Veneto. The measure today also extends to the rest of the country, allowed “by the good performance of the campaign for the administration of priority categories, over 80 and frail”, according to the structure led by the general.
The news is comforting: a quarter of Italians received at least one dose, among them three quarters of those over 70, those most at risk of serious or fatal consequences for Covid.
The accumulation of 4.7 million doses in the refrigerators was also allowed for vaccination of the over 50s. I am so far over 22 million doses administered and we go towards 7 million vaccinated even with the recall.
Reservations for over 50s, i.e. for all those born between 1962 and 1971, they must take place through the portals of the individual regions, obviously giving priority to the most fragile subjects.
Figliuolo took stock of the vaccine strategy in view of the summer: “You need to get vaccinated in order to over 65 and then open to all classes and to those who represent the productive apparatus of the tourism and hotel sector, because Italy must restart and intercept the economic recovery. Approximately 17 million doses of vaccines will arrive in May. May is a month of transition for me, then in June we will have even more doses to vaccinate even in companies “.
However, there are some news regarding the battle against Covid, as the professor explained Massimo Puoti of the Niguarda hospital in Milan: “There are at least two other antivirals – he says – we will begin testing on May 15th. They are given as tablets and reduce the chance of developing serious illness. The future will be a combination of vaccines and drugs ”.
