Roma-Sana
Today, the Italian Ministry of Health announced the registration of 13,314 new infections with the new Corona virus, bringing the total number of infections recorded in the country to two million and 832162 cases.
The Italian "Aki" agency quoted data from the Ministry of Health that 356 new deaths were recorded, bringing the total number of deaths to 96,348 cases since the beginning of the emergency associated with the Corona epidemic.
In the same context, the Ministry of Health raised the ages of adults to receive the "Oxford ... AstraZeneca" vaccine against the Coronavirus epidemic from 55 years to 65 years, and the decision was taken after consulting with the Italian Medicines Agency based on new scientific evidence stating that the estimates of the effectiveness of the vaccine are higher than those mentioned. Previously.
The president of the Pharmaceutical Industry Association, Massimo Scakaparutsi, said that the vaccine is a live product, not an industrial product, and requires a bio-reaction inside a machine called a bioreactor, and that the issue is not pressing a button to remove the vaccine vial, but rather it takes four to six months to start production.
Official data stated that three million 537 thousand and 975 people received a dose of vaccine as part of the national vaccination campaign, among them one million and 332 thousand and 163 people were injected with both necessary doses.