On AstraZeneca and the second dose with a different vaccine, “there are probably about 100 thousand people who have doubts about the heterologous vaccination”, that is about 10% of the 950 thousand who wait for the second dose, having done the first dose of Vaxzevria. This was stated by the extraordinary commissioner for the coronavirus emergency Francesco Paolo Figliuolo on the sidelines of the visit to the vaccination hub of the Lazzaro Spallanzani institute in Rome.
Read also Regarding the vaccination campaign, “the day before yesterday – he said again – we administered 541 thousand doses, yesterday we arrived at 576 thousand vaccinated in one day, probably when the trend settles down we will reach around 600 thousand. We will not be able to rise above these. numbers, there is a logistics that allows us to achieve this result. Now the goal is to be constant on 500 thousand, a sustainable goal, which will lead us to close the campaign at the end of September with 80% of the audience of citizens by the 12 years vaccinated “, explained the special commissioner.” I have just signed a letter to tell the Regions to continue actively looking for the over 60s because today there are 2.8 million missing from the appeal “, added Figliuolo continuing : “With the doses arriving between now and September, we will have over 54 million doses of usable mRna vaccines. With these, added to the 44.5 million already used, we are definitely closing the anti-Covid campaign”. if he intends to ask for an advance of doses after the disappointment for the latest data on the German vaccine CureVac, Figliuolo added: “If there should be an advance, but it is decided at the European level, in case it will help us to go faster. CureVac was an option and has remained so, but the campaign was already geared to what we have available “.