“Vaccines give us hope that the end of the pandemic is approaching.” Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this yesterday during the B20 videoconference meeting, recalling that 6 billion doses of anti-Covid vaccines have already been administered worldwide.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has given the green light to the third dose of the vaccine for frail subjects (respiratory and neurological diseases and the disabled) and for all the over 60s after the ok from the EMA (the European Medicines Agency) "after at least 6 months from the completion of the primary vaccination course". However, the ministry recalled that "15,54% of vaccinated Italians did not even get the first dose of the anti-Covid vaccine" and that "in the most critical age group there are 3 million unimmunized over-XNUMXs".
The epidemiological curve is encouraging and in Italy the infections are decreasing (Sicily will also return to the white zone from Monday) but the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Silvio Brusaferro, still calls for caution: "We are in a positive phase in general which , However, requires great caution because it can persist and can represent a beginning of coexistence with this virus ".
