AstraZeneca vaccine also to the under 60 yes or no? It is being evaluated, says the Commissioner for the general Covid emergency Francesco Figliuolo. While the vaccination campaign proceeds quickly, we look at the under 60s who are the next age group to be vaccinated. The doses of Pfizer may not be enough for everyone at the moment, so we need to focus on AstraZeneca.
AstraZeneca vaccine under 60, what Figliuolo said
“We are considering – said Figliuolo – to extend AstraZeneca to the “under 60 age group, this is based on studies. I’m talking about it with Iss and with the Cts of Aifa ”. “All vaccines must be used – underlined Figliuolo – AstraZeneca is recommended for certain classes but the EMA says it is good for everyone. There are side effects but they are infinitesimal. If we do not use all the vaccines, the pace of the campaign does not reach the objectives within the set times ”.
“We will vaccinate the athletes who have to go to the Olympics very shortly, because this is a sign of Italy starting again”, concluded Figliuolo.
The numbers of vaccines in Italy
Meanwhile, good news for Italy in the first weekend of “semi-liberty” after months of restrictions. For the second consecutive day the 500 thousand vaccines administered in 24 hours leading to over 20 million the doses injected from the start of the vaccination campaign. An important acceleration that in just three days saw the administration of a quantity of doses equal to those administered for almost the entire month of January.
To date, 6 million people have been fully vaccinated in the country, while another 14 million have received the first dose. To these data is also added the umpteenth drop in hospitalizations, cases and victims due to Covid. Yesterday the new positives were 12,965 with 226 deaths and a positivity rate (out of the 378,202 tests carried out) which still drops to 3.4%.