For the active population who are not part of the protected groups and are not entitled to the free flu vaccine, there are 12 doses available for every single Italian pharmacy.
The count is made, according to Federfarma, by dividing the number of 250 thousand doses indicated by the State-Regions conference by pharmacies in the area (including municipal ones), or 19,330.
The major concern of the federations is the delivery time: "Tomorrow is October 1st, citizens are lobbying for it, there is a boom in bookings in pharmacies".
Emilia-Romagna makes 36 thousand doses of influenza vaccine available to private individuals in local pharmacies, equal to double the amount allocated under the agreement reached by the State Regions Conference.
Therefore passing from 1.5% to 3%, according to what has been learned from a note.
Emilia Romagna is thus the first region to make a quota of vaccines available to the private market by reshaping the initial number which was 18,000 doses.
The increase in vaccination quotas requested by Emilia Romagna for this pandemic year is 20.85% compared to last year.
The 2.1 million doses of influenza vaccine purchased by ASL Bari, the company that carried out the single regional contract for the 2020 campaign, are already ready to be distributed. Doses have been purchased for over half of the population, target of the Puglia Region, in fact, is to be able to vaccinate as many people as possible.
"From tomorrow - Professor Pierluigi Lopalco, councilor for Health in pectore of the Puglia Region explains to ANSA - some health and hospital companies will start with the vaccination of health workers. In the next few days, vaccination by general practitioners will start, accompanied by an appropriate information campaign. The vaccines have been purchased and are ready for distribution ".
The vaccine, of course, does not protect against Covid-19, but it is useful to avoid that, in the first instance, normal flu syndromes can be mistaken for Coronavirus contagion and vice versa.
Furthermore, vaccinating 50% of the Apulian population would avoid clogging hospitals with hospitalizations and access to emergency rooms that occur every winter with the arrival of seasonal flu.
The vaccination campaign, therefore, will start in the next few days at least one month earlier than in previous years.
