(ANSA) - MACERATA, 08 APR - "The plan does not change, at the end of the month we have to reach 500 thousand doses per day. From now on, the inoculation of the AstraZeneca vaccine is open to the 60-79 year old audience, while the under 60s who have already received the first dose , they will also receive the second ".
Thus General FrancescoPaolo Figliuolo, commissioner for the Covid emergency, expressed himself this morning in Piediripa di Macerata speaking of the latest developments on the administration of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine.
"The EMA - underlined the general - said that AstraZeneca is a safe vaccine and I hope that this is how the affair ends".
Figliuolo reiterated that "between this quarter and the next 30 million AstraZeneca doses will arrive, which could therefore also be destined for over 60s up to 79 years of age, which is about 13 million and 275 thousand users", of which "2 million and 270 thousand have already received the first dose ".
"If we get vaccinated we get out of it - he said again, after the inauguration of the new vaccination point in Macerata, aPiediripa. As soon as we complete the over 80s and the frail we will open vaccination to the productive classes".
"Our territories have suffered, this is a territory of made in Italy and we have to bring made in Italy back to the world, we must open up", he added.
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