Time.news – Lights and shadows in vaccine administrations in the various regions of Italy have now reached almost 18 million. If Lombardy, Lazio and Veneto, among others, are traveling ‘at full speed’, others like Sicily and Sardinia are marking time.
But reassures the general Francesco Paolo Figliuolo: “In May we will have about 17 million doses, an average of over 450,000 per day with peaks of over 500,000. But May will be a transitional month, June must be the month of the turning point in which to give the final push and leave behind the worst period “.
“The campaign – he insisted – goes on and we have to get to herd immunity and I am sure we will get there on schedule. If the vaccine arrivals in June are consistent with my estimate then they will be from 20 million upwards, as soon as the over 80, the frail and the over 75 are safe, we will give the green light to a parallel and multiple vaccination. In parallel, or on all classes, multiple or opening new vaccination hubs as in companies “.
At the national level, according to the commissioner for covid, we could reach “another thousand vaccination points. So soon the productive classes will be able to enter at full speed and intercept the economic recovery”.
The method must be that of ‘balancing’ “with the consent of the Regions. Even a few days ago we arranged a South-South balance between Sicily and Puglia – continued Figliuolo – and we will do further balancing on AstraZeneca in order to vaccinate as much as possible and keep nothing in the house.
The balances are obviously provisional and when the situation stabilizes the doses are brought back to where they were taken because the principle is “one person, one vaccine”.
Sicily is one of the ‘sore points’. About 1.8 million doses were administered out of the 2.3 million delivered, 77%: a figure that puts the island in queue at national level. Thus, we try to accelerate in the 65 points of the island prepared by the Sicilian Region.
At the moment vaccine supplies are regular, and yesterday 160,000 doses of Pfizer arrived from Rome – on which the Region is now aiming to catch up and bypass the resistance on AstraZeneca – and by 3 June they will be 780,000. Overall, there are 290,000 doses in the refrigerators of the Sicilian hubs.
Sardinia is also bad. Only 11.2% of Sardinians received both doses of the vaccine (the national average is 13%), while 15.7% received only the first, lower than the national average of 16.2%. . The website of the Ministry of Health places it in the penultimate place, ahead of Sicily, for the percentage of doses administered (77.5%) compared to those received: 626,458 were injected out of the 808,440 arrived. The national average percentage is 86%.
Difficulty also in Campania where the president Vincenzo De Luca however attacks Figliuolo: “Today we should have had more vaccines than others, but they have forgotten about them”. “Yesterday the national commissioner said let’s open to 40 year olds. If in other regions, such as Liguria, Veneto and Emilia, there were more 80 year olds and 70 year olds, when we reach 40 year olds it means that there are more of them in Campania”.
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