Almost 180,000 COVID jabs have been
given in Italy so far, Higher Health Council (CSS) chief Franco
Locatelli said Tuesday.
"There are significant regional differences but we are already
at more than 179,000 people vaccinated, a quite significant
number," he said on Italian TV.
In the last 48 hours, Locatelli said, "we have vaccinated 95,000
people".
Locatelli recalled that the vaccination programme started on
December 31 and so it was too early to make a negative
assessment of the regional discrepancies, but added: "the gaps
must be closed".
National COVID commissioner Domenico Arcuri said "the regional
discrepancies will soon be eliminated".
Meanwhile a second batch of 470,000 Pfizer vaccine doses are
arriving at Italy's many vaccination hubs on articulated
lorries.
And Germany and Russia are weighing whether to produce vaccines
together.
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