Italy’s Health Minister, Roberto Speranza has said that they will give all citizens of the country free vaccinations against Coronavirus starting with Doctors and Care home residents once the medications are approved.
Speranza explained that these are measures to avoid a surge in infections during the winter holidays.
Italy will get its vaccines via an EU Procurement Programme and is waiting for the European Medicines Agency’s green light.
On Wednesday, Britain became the first country in the West to approve a Covid-19 vaccine, after its medicine regulator granted emergency use approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which will be available from next week.
“The vaccine will be distributed to all Italians for free. It will not be obligatory at first. The government will be monitoring how the campaign progresses”, the Minister reiterated.
It would be recalled that Italy imposed new restrictions last month to rein in a second wave of infections, putting under partial lockdown much of its industrial north and limiting business activity.
