(ANSA) - TURIN, 08 NOV - The extraordinary commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency, General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, participated in the weekly meeting of the Crisis Unit of the Piedmont Region on the pandemic. And it accepted the request of the President Alberto Cirio to speed up the administration of the third dose also to the youngest, subject to the authorization of Cts and Ema, which "is proving to be an effective tool for containing infections and hospitalizations".
President Cirio underlined the intention to continue with the third dose following the principle adopted for RSA, also in residences for minors, the disabled, psychiatric patients and addictions (10,500 people in all). In the past few weeks, Piedmont had already requested theauthorization to start with school staff as well.
"Piedmont started very quickly - said General Son - it has already carried out 295,000 administrations, and among the large regions it is the one that has the best percentage. It is a pleasure to see how President Cirio knows the vaccination campaign in detail. This is the key to success. at a national level: working together, going into details and having a centralized control of the situation. In Piedmont you are in good hands because problems are faced and solved.
Despite the increase in infections throughout Europe, Italy is among the best placed nations and I believe that next Christmas will be a Merry Christmas ".
The general then participated in a conference on Security at Palazzo Arsenale together with Senator Roberta Pinotti and General Claudio Graziano. (HANDLE).
