"We must accelerate on the third dose which is a fundamental piece of our strategy and we must insist because with it we raise the level of protection especially in the most fragile. coming months with the awareness that there is one more tool than vaccines ". After Commissioner Francesco Figliuolo , Health Minister Roberto Speranza also confirms the government's willingness to focus on the third dose of the anti-Covid vaccine to continue to contain the Covid-19 epidemic.

"Today is the circular of the Ministry of Health, based on the indications of Aifa, which authorizes for those who have completed the cycle with vaccines not recognized by Ema a booster dose to mRna with Pfizer or Moderna. So we will give the green pass to those who have completed a non-Ema vaccination course and that within six months he will have a booster with Pfizer or Moderna, ”said Speranza.

The minister then spoke about vaccines for children under 12: in this case “we will wait for Ema's official pronouncement and it will probably be expressed in December and we will make scientific evidence prevail. In the USA - he added - vaccination of children is starting. If our scientists say that vaccination is effective and safe, we will follow the scientific evidence. "

Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio also confirmed the government's line on the third dose. "President Mattarella also received the third dose, as he always guides us," Di Maio said, referring to the new administration to which the Head of State underwent at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. "If science says we owe it to to do, is not a political opinion ", added the minister, revealing that he is receiving phone calls from his counterparts in other European countries who ask him for the availability of beds in Italian hospitals" if they are needed ".