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  • Vaccines, centers: "There are no precision syringes to make 6 doses per vial."

    Arcuri: "False"

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January 23, 2021 "We will use all legal tools and initiatives, as we are already doing with Pfizer-Biontech, to claim compliance with contractual commitments and to protect our national community in all forms".

The premier, Giuseppe Conte, writes it on Facebook.



Conte: ready to take legal action also against AstraZeneca

If the reduction in deliveries of vaccines to Italy is confirmed, the government is ready to take legal action against AstraZeneca as already announced against Pfizer announced the prime minister.

With regard to AstraZeneca, says Conte, "we will use all legal tools and initiatives, as we are already doing with Pfizer-Biontech, to claim compliance with contractual commitments and to protect our national community in all forms". 



"The latest news coming to us from the companies producing anti-Covid vaccines is worrying", Conte said.

"At first Pfizer-Biontech communicated a slowdown in the distribution to European countries of the vaccine doses already programmed and this is penalizing precisely the countries that, like Italy, are running faster: the Italian regions are forced to slow down the new administrations for ensure the recall of people already vaccinated. But even more worrying are the news yesterday released by AstraZeneca, whose vaccine is waiting to be soon distributed in the European Union ", adds the premier.



60% cut of doses: 3.4 million instead of 8

"If the 60% reduction of the doses that will be distributed in the first quarter were confirmed, it would mean that 3.4 million doses would be delivered in Italy instead of 8 million. This morning Minister Speranza and Commissioner Arcuri met with urgency the leaders of Astrazeneca Italia, who however confirmed the downsizing of production capacity. All this is unacceptable ", continues Conte.



"Our vaccination plan, approved by the Italian Parliament and ratified also in the State-Regions Conference - adds the premier - was developed on the basis of contractual commitments freely assumed and signed by pharmaceutical companies with the European Commission. These delays in deliveries constitute serious violations contractual, which produce enormous damage to Italy and to other European countries, with direct repercussions on the life and health of citizens and on our economic and social fabric already strongly tested by a year of pandemic. We will use all the tools and all the initiatives legal, as we are already doing with Pfizer-Biontech, to claim compliance with contractual commitments and to protect our national community in all forms ", concludes the Prime Minister.



Arcuri: false that precision syringes are missing

"It is false" that less precision syringes were sent to the vaccination centers.

This is what the offices of the Commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri affirm, underlining that "a smaller number of syringes were distributed this week for the trivial reason that Pfizer sent us a smaller number of vaccine vials".

This will continue next week as "20% fewer vials will arrive than announced".

"While understanding that there may be the will to divert the attention of citizens from the real news that these days are attentive to the correct continuation of the vaccination campaign in Italy, that is, Pfizer's failure to supply vaccine vials destined for our country - says Arcuri - after reading learned disquisitions on the number of doses per vial (6 instead of 5) now we learn that the problem would once again be the lack of precision syringes ".

A problem which, continues the Commissioner, "is obviously false".

This is precisely because it was decided to distribute fewer syringes because Pfizer sent fewer vials of the vaccine.

"Finally, we wanted to reassure that, when the regular distribution of vaccines resumes - concludes Arcuri - there will certainly be no shortage of syringes".