First COVID-19 vaccine doses maybe in December - Conte

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 20 - Premier Giuseppe Conte has said he hopes the first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine will be ready early in December in an interview in a new book by RAI journalist Bruno Vespa.
    "If the final phases of preparation, the so-called 'rolling value', of the Oxford-Irbm Pomezia-Astrazeneca vaccine are completed in the next few weeks, the first doses will be available at the start of December," Conte said in excerpts from the book released ahead of its publication on October 29.
    "Right from the start we will have the first two or three million doses. Millions more will arrive straight after.
    "The European Commission has commissioned several hundreds of millions of doses from Astrazeneca and other companies.
    "Nevertheless, I think that we will have to wait until next spring to completely contain the pandemic". (ANSA).