Vaccination obligation, Costa: “We evaluate based on the data”. Third doses also to prof

The government has "never ruled out" the hypothesis of mandatory vaccination in the campaign against Covid.

The Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa said: "We have already introduced it for some categories and, therefore, we will evaluate in the coming weeks, based on the data, possibly whether to introduce it for still other bands".

One way to raise even more the figure of the 46 and a half million Italians vaccinated, ie over 86% of the population over 12. "The campaign is continuing, our goal is to break through the 86% quota and go to 90 % ", says the general and Covid emergency commissioner Francesco Paolo Figliuolo.

THIRD DOSES - Meanwhile, the number of people who could receive a third dose also increases: after the over 60s, it could reach the fifties, the largest category that has made 8.3 million vaccines. If the third dose is extended to the over 50s already in November and December, the total number of people who can be vaccinated between now and the end of the year would be 7.6 million people.

Not only that: according to the Minister of Education, Patrizio Bianchi, who spoke at the inauguration of the school year in the Swabian Castle of Trani, after the 80-year-olds and the most fragile teachers should have absolute priority for the third dose. And General Figliuolo has assured him that it will be so.

PHARMACIES - As Federfarma writes on its website, from north to south of Italy pharmacies are ready to vaccinate people against flu and Covid, even with the third recall, which can already be booked. But the president of Friuli Venezia Giulia and of the Conference of Regions, Massimiliano Fedriga, warns: "The system of pharmacies and family doctors is ready to take on the administration of the third dose only if the numbers are well diluted over time and But if we have to continue to produce large numbers in a short time as has happened up to now, hubs remain the best solution: I see it very difficult for pharmacies and doctors to be able to handle 500,000 administrations per day ".

(Unioneonline / D)