Italy is about to cross the milestone of 20 million immunized.
'But the challenge has not yet been won', warns the Minister of Health Speranza.
The vaccination campaign is now targeting teenagers and over 60s who have not yet received the first dose, to ensure school start and a safe autumn, despite the foreseeable effects of the Delta variant.
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Italians immunized against Covid are preparing to cross the milestone of 20 million - over a third of the total population. The latest issue of the structure of Commissioner Francesco Figliuolo indicates in mid-afternoon 19,960,078 people with both doses taken (or the single dose). From Palazzo Chigi they let it be known that the campaign "proceeds regularly according to schedule". The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, however, calls for caution: "we must not - he warns - absolutely consider this challenge won, the game is still to be played and the epidemic is not over".
Several Regions are grappling with the postponement of reservations, taking into account the stop of Astrazeneca and Johnson & Johnson for the under 60s and a 5% drop in supplies for the month of July of messenger RNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna). In Puglia to postpone the appointment with the injection will be only the under 30s and not the over 50s as initially communicated, after learning that Moderna will deliver to the Region, until August 15, just over 50 thousand doses more than on the initial floor. In Lazio, the lack of about 100 thousand doses of Pfizer has led to the stop of bookings for the over 17s and the postponement of the campaign for children between 12 and 16 years old. However, it is not in question, as General Figliuolo has repeatedly stated,the conclusion of the campaign by September and the achievement of herd immunity, with coverage of 80% of the vaccinable population.
"If up to now an attitude of prudence with regard to the vaccine could also be accepted, making a cost-benefit ratio, and one could in some way think of waiting and seeing the evolution, the epidemiological picture, with the Delta variant, which we have in front of us somehow as a suggestion to hurry up to get the vaccination before school starts ". So to ANSA the president of the National Federation of Medical Orders (Fnomceo) Filippo Anelli on the vaccination of adolescents. While for a boost among the over 60s it is now necessary to go beyond the hubs and involve "general practitioners".