Vaccines: Bertolaso, night openings to facilitate over 50s

(ANSA) - MILAN, 09 JAN - For the next three Fridays in January, the Sesto San Giovanni vaccination center, near Milan, will also be active at night.

This was announced by the coordinator of the vaccination campaign in Lombardy, GuidoBertolaso, explaining that the trial will be launched "also to facilitate the new category that has the obligation to book, that is the over 50s".

The center, he added, "will also be open at night, without the need for reservations. We will do it on an experimental basis in Sesto San Giovanni, then if there is availability of staff and requests we will continue to increase this activity".

    "Finally we can make the third dose to the category of young people who for the moment had been excluded, those aged 12 to 15. In fact we are already vaccinating them today with the third dose, even if we should have started tomorrow", added Bertolaso, on the sidelines of the visit. to the hub dedicated to pediatric vaccinations at the Milan Fair.

   In Lombardy, Bertolaso ​​recalled, "we broke the record of over 20 million vaccinations a few days ago, with more than 4.5 million third doses already administered. We will administer another two million by the end of January.

   So I think we are going well beyond that .

the objectives set by General Son. We have no cause for concern, we need to increase the slots, especially for children aged 5 to 11 ". (HANDLE).