The government's Special Commissioner
for the Coronavirus Emergency, Domenico Arcuri, said Friday that
Italy's COVID-19 vaccination plan was now going at full steam
after delays in recent weeks due to reductions in supplies from
Pfizer.
Arcuri said the plan central government prepared with the
nation's regions and provinces was "working at full pace".
He said he expected seven million Italians to have been
vaccinated for the virus by the end of March.
The first batch of 249,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine is
set to arrive in Italy on Saturday.
This should make it possible to start vaccinating under-55s with
the AstraZeneca vaccine on Tuesday, sources said.
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