Vaccines are a “decisive” issue in the fight against Covid and the data of the vaccination campaign “encouraging and positive”. Health Minister Roberto Speranza, speaking in the Chamber during the Question time, announces that today “we will exceed the 59 million doses administered, we proceed with a daily average of over 530 thousand injections every day”. According to the minister, in addition to the masks and the spacing, it is necessary to continue with an “intelligent use of the green pass, an important tool and I am pleased to share with the classroom that 28 million and 400 thousand had been downloaded from our computer portals this morning at 7 am. green card “. It is, he stresses, “a very significant number”.
On the Delta variant, Speranza reports the forecast of the ECDC, the European Center for the Prevention and Control of Diseases: «Very soon it will become prevalent in Europe, and everything suggests that it will also apply to Italy. We have worked to strengthen sequencing, there are 112 laboratories, at the moment we have 6% of the cases sequenced, we have to increase them even more ».
Vaccines at school
“85% of the school staff received at least a first dose of the vaccine“, remembers Minister Speranza. «It is an important fact, it would be wrong to send a different message. But we still have to work with great insistence, because this 85% is not homogeneous on a national level but it shows significant differences ».
Recovery plan and training
“Between 2016 and 2019 we had 6,000 medical specialization scholarships on average in a year and this year we reach the never before seen number of 17,400 specialization scholarships,” adds Speranza. “We have invested in more exchanges in the past two years than in the previous five. We must continue to invest ».