Italy announced, this Wednesday (12), the expansion of the vaccine against Covid-19 to people aged 40 and over.
Born until 1981 can schedule from Monday (17), according to Francesco Figliuolo, Commissioner for Emergency, who sent a letter to the Regions to give the green light to scheduling.
The same document “recommends the absolute need to continue to pay attention to frail people, over the age of 60, to guarantee maximum coverage”.
The effort to increase immunization
Yesterday, the Italy surpassed the mark 25 million doses administered.
People vaccinated with the first and second doses make up around 13% of the population.
According to the newspaper ll Giorno, the EMA, the European Medicines Agency, is examining a request to extend the use of the vaccine from Pfizer BioNTech to young people aged 12 to 15: “We hope to give approval by the end of the month”.
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