Italy is suffering major delays in
administering the forth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the GIMBE
health foundation said Thursday.
"There has been a clamorous delay in giving the fourth jab", it
said, referring to the so-called second booster for which the
over 60s recently became eligible.
Up till yesterday, GIMBE said "only 2.18 million doses" had been
given out, a drop of 12.4% on previous vaccination campaigns.
It said some 14.3 million of over 60s and fragile people, to
which the fourth dose is aimed, were still not covered.
In its latest weekly monitoring report GIMBE said COVID
infections were up 18.7% after five straight weeks of falls.
It said intensive care cases were down 15.1% and hospital
admissions down 15.5%.
Deaths were more or less steady, at 1.7% up.
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