Italy: arrival of the first truck of vaccines against Covid-19
The truck, from Belgium, containing 9,750 doses of anti-Covid vaccines, arrived Friday evening at the Spallanzani hospital, specializing in infectious diseases, and equipped with freezers to keep the precious doses at –75 degrees.
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Italy, which is the fifth country most affected in the world by the coronavirus in number of deaths, has had the first batches of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses shipped by refrigerated truck from Belgium.
They arrived in Rome after a journey of more than ten hours under escort and monitored live by television channels.
As elsewhere in Europe, the vaccination campaign will begin on December 27.
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Anne Le Nir
Like a thriller, all the movements of the refrigerated truck, adorned with a logo in the shape of a crab claw, were filmed.
From its point of departure, the city of Puurs in Belgium, stronghold of Pfizer laboratories, to its destination, the city of Rome.
Escorted by dozens of police cars with all lights on, the truck, containing 9,750 doses, crossed much of the peninsula in the rain.
The truck arrived Friday, December 25 in the evening at the Spallanzani hospital, specializing in infectious diseases, and equipped with freezers to keep
the precious doses
at -75 degrees.
It is this hospital which had treated at the
end of January a couple of Chinese tourists suffering
from the virus.
It is within this establishment, now ultra protected by the military, that the first person in Italy will be vaccinated on December 27.
In tribute to the nursing staff, the chosen one is a 29-year-old nurse, mother of two children.
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