From the nurse from Schiavonia to the retired doctor recalled, here are the first vaccinated - live photos

From the Schiavonia nurse to the Contugno infectious disease specialist.

The faces and names that symbolize the battle of these months are those of those who have received, throughout Italy, the first doses of the anti Covid Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that have also been administered to many RSA guests.

The infectious specialist

Rodolfo Punzi is the first of the vaccinated this morning in the Cotugno hospital

, one of the symbolic places in the city of the fight against Covid and vaccination protection for the entire hospital of the Hills.

This morning, before the start of the administration, the president of the Region Vincenzo De Luca met with the doctors booked to receive the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine.

Operations continue in the five boxes set up in a tent outside the Cotugno.

"It's time to turn the page, this is the opportunity, the chance to turn the page begins": said

Massimo Galli

, head

of the Sacco Hospital in Milan

, one of the first to get vaccinated today at Niguarda hospital on the occasion of the launch of the vaccination campaign against covid.

As for vaccine safety, "100% safety does not exist for any drug, vaccine or surgery."

Her

name is Alice Soldà, she is 58 years old and

works in the emergency room of the Schiavonia hospital

: she is the first Paduan health worker vaccinated in what the director general of Ulss 6 Domenico Scibetta has defined a "historic day".

Alice underwent the first dose of the Covid 19 vaccine shortly before 11.30.

Excited, but calm Alice said: "We have lived through very difficult moments, now we hope that everything goes well".

"This hospital for us is a symbol of the fight against Coronavirus - said Scibetta - I still remember that late afternoon of February 21 when we received the news of the first death from Covid 19 (it was Adriano Trevisan, from Vo '), that day the entire hospital was isolated, to swab even those who had symptoms was an intuition of our professionals, at that moment only those who had had contact with other positives and those who came from contaminated areas were swabbed " For the hospital, this is the turning point after the first death from the pandemic.

"Today we are here - adds the general director from the Schiavonia vaccine station - and I do not hide the fact that I am excited".

Gloria Capriata, the Reanimation nurse of the San Martino Polyclinic Hospital

, testimonial of the Liguria Region vaccination campaign,

has just been vaccinated against Covid19

.

Gloria is 48 years old: a genuine Genoese, she has been working at the San Martino Polyclinic Hospital since she was 19.

Another woman, Anna Maria Di Bella, 60 years old, 'stung her'.

Visibly excited, the nurse sat in the center of the clinic and at the end received the applause of the colleagues present. With Capriata, five other testimonials of the Vaccine day will be vaccinated: Giovanni Assumma, soldier of a Genoese public assistance, the doctor of the Hall 12 of San Martino Maria Ghinatti, the disinfector technician Marco Giglio, the infectious diseases doctor of the Chiara Dentone Polyclinic and Luca Castellani, specializing in emergency medicine and first aid

The anti-Covid vaccine was also administered to the members

of the Ligurian regional health task force appointed at the beginning of the pandemic

for the health management of the emergency.

The first to receive the drug was Gian Carl Icardi, director of the Hygiene department of the San Martino Polyclinic followed by Filippo Ansaldi, Head of Prevention of the Ligurian Alisa healthcare company.

Then it was the turn of Matteo Bassetti, director of the San Martino Infectious Diseases Clinic and Angelo Gratarola, head of the regional intercompany Department of Health Emergency.

"The vaccine is the best Christmas present, after Fiorentina's victory against Juve".

Infectious disease specialist Giovanni Di Perri

jokes with journalists before undergoing the Covid vaccine at the Amedeo di Savoia hospital in Turin.

The professor is the first in Piedmont to get the vaccine.

"I am very happy, it is a very important day - he says - I am worried in proactive terms because the day is important, there are many vaccines to do. We have not realized until now how the situation can precipitate if we do not get rid of this madness that overwhelmed us. The vaccine has proven to be 90 percent effective, in addition to expectations, I would have been satisfied with 60 percent. Now it is a matter of distributing it, of organizing it, of making it reach the groups most at risk because when they will be safe and we will reason with greater serenity ".

"Those who have lived on their skin and have seen with their own eyes the dramatic extraordinary nature of this disease cannot and should not fear the product of science".

Thus

the head of the emergency room of the Civico di Palermo,

Massimo Geraci, 52, the first doctor to be vaccinated today in Sicily on the V-Day, comments on the front page of the newspaper "La Sicilia" the start of the vaccination campaign against the virus.

"This day - he explains - has different meanings. It is mainly an invitation, a reminder of the responsibility of those who are health workers, which I am sure will be widely accepted. But I also like to consider it a tribute to those who fought on the front line, not as heroes, but with a spirit of service, in the full interpretation of the most beautiful aspect of our health, of public health: that of the universality of care ".

For doctor Geraci "a health worker, for the professional choice he has made, cannot fail to grant unconditional trust to science. And science indicates that the achievement of herd immunity is the tool through which the battles against fearsome infectious diseases ".

"Those who have lived on their own skin and have seen with their own eyes the dramatic extraordinary nature of this disease - concludes the head of the Emergency Department of the largest Sicilian hospital - cannot and should not fear the product of science that has seen the winning man even against nature, that nature at times stepmother, ferocious and ruthless in its selection against the frailty of man ".

Nurse Ines Antoniani, 54, of the Anesthesia and

Intensive Care

Department of the Santa Chiara hospital in Trento

is the first person in Trentino to receive the Pfizer - Biontech vaccine against Covid-19.

Shortly after 9, the first 30 vaccinations started in the hospital's auditorium.

Hospital and general practitioners, nurses, oss, cleaners.

Another 70 vaccinations will always be carried out this morning in other hospitals and in the local health care centers.

From tomorrow 4,500 doses per week will arrive in Trentino, for a total of 18,000 doses.

In the first instance, guests and RSA operators, health personnel and fragile patients will be vaccinated.

"This is a day of hope," said Health Councilor Stefania Segnana.

"Citizens will have to continue to observe the prevention rules, but the vaccine will give us a big hand to get out of this bad period".

The President of the Province Maurizio Fugatti thanked all the health personnel: "You have always been on the front line, you still are today and I know that it is not easy also because the sentiment in the population has changed. the first vaccines. This is an important first step ".

The mayor of Trento Franco Ianeselli urged everyone to join the vaccination campaign: "I think it is very important to end the year with hope, doing your part in this moment is also saying yes to the vaccine".

Apss director Pier Paolo Benetollo added: "After the dramatic moments of these months, a new path is now beginning. It will not be immediate but must be followed in a decisive way".

The injection and then the applause, Silverio Piro, 71,

an infectious disease doctor at the Brotzu hospital, retired but recalled for the Covid emergency

, is the first person in Sardinia vaccinated against Covid.

The first woman is Virginia Boi, 58, responsible for pre-hospitalization at Brotzu.

"An important moment - said Paolo Cannas, extraordinary commissioner of the company - the hospital was chosen for a logistical question, but staff from other hospitals are also being vaccinated".

Tomorrow 4800 other doses that will be inoculated to health personnel and collaborators.

Then the regional councilor for health, Mario Niedduto, assured the elderly and guests of the RSA.

About five thousand doses will arrive every three to four days.

"The most exciting moment - he said - was the administration of the first vaccine: after having fought so much we have the feeling of being at a turning point".

Today the first 45 doses, then on until the exhaustion of the first 180 vials arrive last night from Spallanzani in Rome with a military flight.

The crate with the vaccine was kept by the Sassari Brigade at the barracks in viale Poetto before being transported to Brotzu this morning.

Her

name is

Maria Caldarulo, she is 94 years old, and she is the first elderly guest of an RSA from Puglia

to have been vaccinated against Covid in Bari. Excited, she thanked the nurses and doctors of the ASL Bari who gave her the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

"Today I am very happy," she said then moved, recalling the other vaccinations she underwent in the course of her life.

Ms. Caldarulo is a guest of the RSA 'Villa Giovanna' in Bari, it is one of the most affected healthcare residences in the first wave of Covid infections: a symbolic place in the fight against coronavirus.

After the 94 year old, another 30 people were vaccinated including guests and health personnel.