Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza announced that Italy will start giving a third dose of Covid-19 vaccines to groups considered especially vulnerable this month.
“We will provide the third dose in Italy,” Esperanza said, adding that the categories that will start receiving a third dose this month include oncological patients and those who have undergone organ transplants.
The Minister explained that “the European Medicines Agency and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control have already expressed their views on this subject, so we will start with the first phase of the third doses in September, and then we will analyze things to continue these doses with those over the age of eighty years and residents in care homes and workers Healthy people, who were the first groups to receive the vaccine.
And Italian President Sergio Mattarella once again called on his people to be immunized against the emerging corona virus, stressing that not obtaining the vaccine puts lives at risk.
Mattarella said, in a ceremony held last Sunday, on the occasion of the opening of the academic year at the University of Pavia, according to the Italian agency “ANSA” that “freedom should not be invoked in order to avoid obtaining the vaccine, this matter is equal to calling for endangering the health of others, and in some cases, endangering the lives of others.”
“Except for those who do so for health reasons, those who demand the right not to be vaccinated and to live a normal life by going to work and leisure are forcing others to restrict their freedom and give up the opportunity to return to a normal life,” Mattarella added.
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