Covid, on vaccines, General Figliuolo promotes Sicily

“Sicily is doing 20,000 vaccinations a day and we are in the full target of the vaccination campaign and with this data, as a percentage of the population, it ranks among the first regions in Italy for administration. It is clear that we must double and reach around 50 thousand doses ».

This is the analysis of the national commissioner for the Covid 19 emergency, Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, after his visit to the island, in the vaccination hubs of Messina and Catania. The general found “an optimal environment”, even if “there are many things to do” and “the president of the Region, Nello Musumeci, has listed for me the aspects he wants to increase”. “In Sicily there are good practices – observed Figliulo – the planning of the Region and a very very interesting initiative, the one started with the Sicilian Bishops’ Conference which on April 3, on the eve of Easter, will give the possibility to have 500 vaccination points. in as many parishes of the dioceses of the island to reserve or administer doses. It is a very important thing and is in line with the national plan to also create capillarization, where possible, which includes vaccination points even in the most inaccessible areas, in addition to large hubs ».

On the numbers of the infection, President Musumeci preached calmly: “They are physiological, not alarming: the number of infections has increased in recent days – he explained – but there is no pressure on hospitals”. «We continue to lose human lives – he observed – but it is an absolutely different figure compared to past weeks. We are convinced that attention must be kept high in this month of April ». «The human resources chain is there – Musumeci underlined – but the raw material is lacking. We were told that 110,000 branches of the three vaccines should arrive by early April, we hope this will be the case. There was an abrupt halt linked to the AstraZeneca affair because the psychosis was created, but now reservations have resumed ». According to President Musumeci on the island “there is a Region that has been able to equip itself and organize itself efficiently, which has nine particularly popular and crowded hub points”. «What – he added – we showed General Figliuolo today. The Sicily of a particularly motivated paramedical and medical staff, Sicily which today is confirmed as the first region of Italy for the number of vaccines administered. All this is a source of pride for the commissioner who came to visit our facilities ».