Vaccine coverage not high enough among risk groups - GIMBE

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 1 - The GIMBE medical foundation said Thursday that COVID-19 vaccination coverage was not high enough among high-risk groups in Italy.
    GIMBE President Nino Cartabellotta said that 15.2 million people in Italy who are over 60 or clinically fragile had not had a fourth COVID vaccine dose, as of August 31.
    Presenting GIMBE's weekly coronavirus monitoring report, he said 1.88 million of them had not had a third dose and over 892,00 were completely unvaccinated for the virus.
    The report said the number of new COVID cases in Italy was around 149,000 in the August 24-30 period, down 15.8% on the previous week.
    But Cartabellotta stressed that, despite a rise in new cases last week, the level of contagion was basically on a plateau that it reached in the middle of August. (ANSA).