The piano for the distribution and the administration gods Covid vaccines will be presented next week by Roberto Speranza. The announcement came directly from the Minister of Health: “I will be in Parliament the 2 December to present the Strategic Plan of the vaccines we are building – he said – Italy started working from the month of May to promote aEuropean initiative in the field of vaccines. It was the prime mover of the European Commission who started building contacts with pharmaceutical companies who are developing vaccines “. Unlike other vaccines, the purchase of which is done at a regional level, for anti-Covid “the purchase will be centralized and managed by the state ”, he said again explaining that numerous contracts have been signed“ and others will be signed shortly ”. Italy – he announced – will have “the 13,65% vaccines already optioned in Europe “.
And right there European Commission approved the sixth contract for an anti-Covid vaccine, with the pharmaceutical company Modern. The contract provides for the initial purchase of 80 million doses on behalf of all Member States ofEuropean Union, plus an option to request up to an additional 80 million doses, to be provided once the vaccine is proven safe and effective. The contract with Moderna, announced on Monday by Ursula von der Leyen, will expand the vaccine portfolio for EU countries, adding to the agreements reached with AstraZeneca, Sanofi-GSK, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, BioNTech-Pfizer e CureVac. “For vaccines, the European Commission now has contracts with six pharmaceutical companies and the first European citizens could be vaccinated again before the end of December. We finally see a light at the end of the tunnel, ”von der Leyen told al European Parliament. “Member States have to prepare. There is talk of millions of syringes, of cold chain, to organize vaccination centers and qualify personnel to do so. All this must be prepared. States must prepare the logistics for the deployment of hundreds of millions of doses of vaccines, ”added von der Leyen.
The schools, he guaranteed, “remain at the center of government attention”. Even in red areas, “We made a very clear choice to protect them, because we believe they are one absolute priority and we have decided never to close the primary ones, until the sixth grade ”. On this, as on all other issues under discussion such as the Christmas he ski resorts, “We will evaluate day by day the evolution of epidemiological picture national team that we will examine, as every week, on Friday – continued Speranza – but the picture is very severe and needs the utmost caution. Also on the basis of those data we will make subsequent evaluations on all the issues under discussion “.
Speaking of lightness and in view of Christmas and the possible reopening of the ski season, Speranza reiterated that “still today there are limitations that I am inevitable “. “I would like to be able to say that the problems are all solved and reopen everything, but I would not tell the truth to the country – warned the Minister of Health – Let’s not forget what happened in estate, when part of the country thought that the battle was won – he concluded – We are seeing the salty price that we had to pay for what happened in those weeks. We can not afford another wave in early 2021. Until we have certain treatments and an approved vaccine, the only weapon we have are measures that involve sacrifices ”.
On the health expenditure model, the Healthcare Manager insisted on the need for a rescheduling to close with the cutting season: “We have presented to Parliament, both in the Chamber and in the Senate, a plan that can be financed with all the levers of which we have, with the balance of the State, the Recovery fund and the My, which for me is a tool that you have to look at with absolute serenity. We need to close with the cutting season and open a new great season of investments ”, he explained during an organized meeting Rcs Academy.
The words for the 37 billion in loans that Italy could obtain for health, by activating the credit line created ad hoc for the pandemic, led to the premier’s close response Giuseppe Conte: “I understand that the Minister of Health may wish for new resources, the problem is not in the instrument but in the resources. Already in the budget law There are substantial resources, in Recovery Plan there will be substantial resources for the health system. There is a health strengthening plan, we will make sure that the resources are adequate “.
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