A 103-year-old Tuscan man who became the oldest person in the central Italian region to get the COVID jab has become the target of Web haters who say it was "useless" to vaccinate someone so old.
The man, Basilio Pompei, got the jab a few days ago in a care
home in the Mugello area south of Florence.
The former butcher from Pontassieve, one of the few Italians to
make it back to Italy after being deported to Nazi concentration
camps, told local daily La Nazione that he had had many
vaccinations in his long life and this had been no different.
"If, then, someone wants to write something, or comment, I have
nothing to say," Pompei said.
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