BRUSSELS -
481.6 million vaccine doses delivered in the EU and 376.4 million vaccinations.
62.7% of adults
in the Union have been given
at least one dose
, while
45% are fully immunized
.
The spokesperson of the European Commission, Dana Spinant, writes on Twitter with data updated to date.
In Italy, meanwhile, the vaccination plan "is going very well, yesterday we exceeded 20 million fellow citizens with the second dose and with this rate, which will have no setbacks, we will achieve herd immunity by the end of September".
Thus the Undersecretary for Health Andrea Costa,
on Tg2 Italia on Rai Due, underlining that "the doses will be there,
the goal of herd immunity in September we are in a position to be able to reach it
". "We must continue to convey the message that the only way out of the pandemic, even in the younger population, is the vaccine. We can no longer - he added - make our children lose school. Because school is also fundamental as path of inclusion, as well as training ".
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