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April 12, 2021A better summer, with attention and gradualness, to be able to have "many more freedoms" than these months, but "not a free all".

Thus the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza interviewed by the newspaper

la Repubblica

, where he indicates two new features in sight: the recall of Pfizer and Moderna at 42 days, and no longer 21 and 28;

and the possibility for the over 60s to show up at the hubs to be immunized with AstraZeneca without booking with the residual doses.

But now, he stresses, the priority remains linked to people over 80, and then to those between 70 and 80. "Aifa has already expressed an opinion in which it gives the possibility of a second dose on the 42nd day. They recover two or three weeks and it can be useful in this phase. It is a step forward. Even if I repeat that the real turning point is to have more vaccines: having 50 million will allow the real acceleration ".

Priority to over 60 and frail.

"Frozen", on the other hand, unexposed sanitary ware, school staff, police forces ... "We changed the criteria - he remembers - when AstraZeneca was authorized only for the under 65s, the effect of the first trial limited to the youngest. We had to decide whether to keep the doses in the fridge or use them. We chose to allocate them in particular to the school, which is a fundamental piece of the country. A useful move, today, to allow the resumption of lessons in the presence. Then AstraZeneca was authorized for all and we returned to the original declination of plan".

In the meantime, the regions have allocated at least two million vaccines to the "others" category.



According to the minister, the over 80s will be vaccinated "by April" and "I believe that by the quarter - therefore by the end of June - all over 60s, which is about 18 million more, can be secured. The real turning point is to have more vaccines. . We have to accelerate further, this is clear. Figliuolo's work goes in this direction. In this quarter we expect 50 million vaccines. And 7.3 million Johnson & Johnson in the quarter. The first doses will arrive this week. It will be 4-500 thousand ad April".   



On the reopening chapter, for Hope "in April it is better to keep the utmost caution. In May, depending on the parameters of the infection and the ability to vaccinate the frail, there may be conditions for less restrictive measures such as those in the yellow zone. clear: we must have great caution and prudence. Continue with a gradual path ".

As for Salvini's criticisms - observes Speranza - "I just say that I find incomprehensible the attitude of those in the government and behave as if they were in opposition, with the ill-concealed goal of collecting a few votes on the real difficulties of many people"