Starting
from Monday 20 September, the third dose of anticovid vaccine will be administered to immunocompromised subjects.
This is what was decided today during a meeting attended by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza and the Commissioner for Emergency Francesco Figliuolo
At the center of the meeting, after the favorable opinion expressed by the AIFA CTS and the government's technical-scientific committee, there was precisely the administration of 'booster' doses to those categories most exposed or most at risk of serious disease. And a comparison is already underway between the Ministry of Health and the technicians of the regions, underlining a note from the commissioner structure, for "the immediate definition of the target population". all over the country.
To allow the inoculation of the third dose, the structure of Figliuolo still underlines, further doses of Pfizer and Moderna mRna vaccine will be made available
.
Meanwhile, 2,800 Covid test positives have been identified in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 4,664. Instead, there are 36 victims in one day, yesterday there were 34. There are 120,045 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 267,358. The positivity rate is 2.3%, up from 1.7% yesterday