More than 100,000 people a day have
got the COVID vaccine since Monday February 22, emergency
commissioner Domenico Arcuri said Thursday.
"The campaign of vaccination against the COVID epidemic is
showing a reassuring increase," he said.
"Since MOnday February 22 over 100,000 administrations (of the
jab) have been carried out on average per day and yesterday,
Wednesday February 24, the peak of 102,433 doses was reached".
Also Thursday, AstrraZeneca said it would deliver some 20
million shots of its COVID jab to Italy in the second quarter of
this year.
Approaching four million people in Italy have had the first dose
of a COVID vaccine.
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