Over eight million people are fully vaccinated for COVID-19, according to updated health ministry figures on Friday.
The ministry said 8,070,376 people, 13.62% of the population, have completed the vaccination cycle, meaning they have had two doses of a vaccine or a shot of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose jab.
It said almost 26 million COVID vaccination shots, 25,912,621, have been injected in Italy so far.
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