Health Minister Roberto Speranza has
announced that Italy will start giving a third dose of COVID-19
vaccines to groups of people considered especially fragile this
month.
"We have the third dose in Italy," Speranza said on Monday.
"We'll start in September with fragile patients like oncology
and transplant patients.
"The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the European Centre for
Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have already expressed
opinions on this.
"So we'll start with the first third doses in Italy in September
and then we'll analyse things to continue with the over-80s,
care-home residents and health personnel, who were the first
groups to get the vaccine".
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