AstraZeneca, Lombardy: stop second dose with another vaccine

Stop the recall of the vaccine with a second dose different from AstraZeneca for all citizens under 60 in Lombardy. This was announced by the region in a press release, following the indication of the Technical Scientific Committee on the administration of the Anglo-Swedish product exclusively to people over 60 years of age. “Pending an official note from the Ministry of Health and Aifa, competent to issue a scientific opinion, and in order to protect the health of citizens as much as possible and guarantee their rights, the Directorate-General for Welfare has decided to cautiously suspend the heterologous recalls (therefore with a different vaccine) for all citizens under 60 who received the first dose of AstraZeneca “, reads the note.” For those over 60 – the region specifies – nothing changes “.