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03 December 2020 "Between the second and third quarters of 2020, we will potentially be able to vaccinate the entire population".

Thus the emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri in a hearing before the Transport and Social Affairs committees of the Chamber.

'The commissioner structure - he explained - is responsible for managing the entire organization, distribution of vaccines.

And I thank the Regions and Provinces as well as the Armed Forces who have been collaborating with us for weeks ".

According to Arcuri, "the plan for the distribution and administration of vaccines is substantially ready".

The commissioner assured that "the dialogue with local administrations, the armed forces and large companies is underway. We are not worried about temporality, when the vaccines are there we will be ready. We have worked well and in advance".

In Italy a total of 202,573,000 doses of vaccine will arrive and will be sufficient to vaccinate the entire population and maintain booster doses.

"Italy is entitled to 13.46% of the vaccine doses that will be gradually distributed from Europe".

"It should be pointed out that at the moment in which we speak no vaccine has been approved, neither by the EMA nor by the AIFA, nor by the APA, the US regulatory agency. and the trials carried out by the six manufacturing companies that are the subject of a shop with the EU are very encouraging and the European regulatory agency has announced in recent days that it could conclude the certification activity of the first vaccine produced by Pfizer and Biontech companies on 29 December and that of Moderna on January 12 "Arcuri specified, regarding the transport and distribution of Covid vaccines.

"The first presumably available vaccine, the Pfizer one - he later explained - will be distributed throughout the country directly by the manufacturer".

For this type of vaccine "300 administration points have already been identified, essentially hospitals: 87% of these aids already have the cold rooms necessary to store this type of vaccine at extremely low temperatures (at least -75) even if the doses should remain in storage for over 15 days "specified the special commissioner. 

"Together with two large Italian public companies that I have to thank, Poste Italiane and Eni, who are once again collaborating with us, a highly advanced information system is being created that will allow us to trace every single dose from the moment it arrives on the our territory when it is administered but it will also be able to activate booking and reporting processes of the administration for each citizen '' explained the extraordinary emergency commissioner. '' The results of the administration to each citizen will be transferred to the information system of the Ministry of Health so that all of us can have daily evidence of which and how many, where and to whom the vaccines have been administered '', he added.

"Who will do the campaign of administration?

We are foreseeing an extraordinary appeal to a group of up to 20 thousand professionals who can be used for the time of this massive campaign.

We will look for these professionals with a request for an expression of public interest that we will soon issue and then we will coordinate their use together with the local administration points that will be the local health authorities, hospitals and hospital pharmacies '', Arcuri also specified. 

"We are organizing a layout with homogeneous administration points throughout the territory, it will accompany a mass awareness and communication campaign that will be necessary in the coming months to make all citizens aware. The vaccine will be Only with herd immunity will we be able to say that we have come out of this tragedy that afflicts our country and the world ", commented the extraordinary commissioner for the emergency.