"This is the first big challenge: don't think you have won, keep the level of attention very high and continue with correct behavior and restrictive measures that are the fundamental weapon for our battle against the virus for a few more months".
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Vaccinating health workers against Covid-19 organized by the Italian Federation of pediatricians (Fimp).
Yesterday, said Speranza, "I signed ordinances that show a significant piece of our country in orange and in Europe the data of the resurgence of the virus are very significant".
The virus, he warned, "continues to circulate and continues to be a very formidable adversary and unfortunately for some time the mitigation measures and the rules are and will remain the fundamental weapon with which to defend ourselves".
On anti-Covid vaccinations "we started with a very determined pace and yesterday we exceeded 500,000 vaccinations in Italy" but "I think we are still at the beginning of the process and the doses we have are still evidently limited", said the Minister of Health.
The exceeding of 500 thousand vaccinations in Italy, said the minister, "I think it is an important signal and I want to express gratitude to all the men and women of the National Health Service who have enabled us to achieve this very first result".
"I think - he continued - that we are still at the beginning of the process and the doses we have are still evidently limited, we only have two large companies that were first authorized for marketing, Pfizer and BioNTech, and for a few days Moderna . We only hope that as soon as possible other companies can be authorized to market their vaccine and we will then have to be quick to adapt our organizational machine to the new numbers of doses available and within that passage the role of pediatricians will also be fundamental. ".
In this first phase, underlined Speranza, "we asked health personnel to be on the front line above all to lead by example, because getting vaccinated is essential and is the real way out of these months and from this crisis that is so difficult and I see in this moment is an important answer. This is essential for setting a good example ".