The vaccination campaign for the age group 5-11 will be inaugurated with an Open day this afternoon.
The new space dedicated to children, with ad hoc itineraries and staff, was set up at the Cagliari Fair, in the congress palace. Therefore, no reservation is needed: the little ones who will be accompanied there from 14 to 19 will be able to receive their first anti-Covid injection, highly recommended by all health authorities and doctors, at a time when infections in these ages are growing strongly. .
At noon, on the other hand, the slots for the appointments of the next few days open, for all those born between 2010 and 2016 who have already turned five years old.
Yesterday morning many more vials were delivered to the Binaghi pharmacy than initially expected. Only 6,000 had been announced, instead 36 thousand arrived, already being distributed throughout the island. The total audience is 47 thousand subjects. Another 18 thousand doses are scheduled for mid-January, and to these are added 37,440 doses for other age groups.
"So we will start immediately with 18 thousand administrations, the other 18 thousand we will keep for the recalls, which must be done after twenty-one days - underlines Gabriele Mereu, head of Vaccinoprophylaxis Ats Sud Sardegna -. I remember that the vaccine - Pfizer - for children is safe and effective, that the pediatric dose is one third of that of adults. At the Fair we will do about 100 a day, but we are modulating the organizational aspects hour by hour, we want to open as many ad hoc points as possible, and for this we rely heavily on a agreement with the pediatricians, already in the field. These first doses are given to the Brotzu and the Aou of Sassari for the frail, and then to the hubs. Next week we will also start at Binaghi ".
FIRST DOSES - Meanwhile, first doses beat no vax. The number of new vaccinates is increasing at a good pace - there are about 1,000 more every day in Sardinia - the number of people opposed to the injection and anti-Green pass protesters in the squares is decreasing more and more.
Since the last decree was announced with further measures to contain the spread of the infection, in the hubs of the island "about 8,000 first doses are made per week", underlines the extraordinary commissioner of Ats Massimo Temussi.
Even if a hard core resists who even chooses to be suspended from work in order not to submit to what he calls "health dictatorship".
The obligation for teachers, law enforcement, military and socio-sanitary operators started yesterday without particular inconvenience (while for doctors and nurses there is now the need to do the booster), in several schools there are no professors, some due to illness, others have asked for leave; same speech between police and carabinieri, dozens of absences in various departments, with the staff already on the bone.
(Unioneonline)
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