VENICE | THIRD DOSE, THE ADMINISTRATION FOR UNDER 60 IS ASSESSED – ANTENNA TRE
25/10/2021 VENICE – More than 70 thousand Venetians have received the booster dose of the anti covid vaccine. “We are waiting to see if it will be extended to the rest of the population” said president Zaia during a conference in Venice || Next week, President Zaia will present the study he himself commissioned on the scenario that would have arisen without the measures adopted in these 20 months of pandemic. The announcement during the conference in Venice which brought together in the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista the leading experts who fought on the front line against covid. It was an opportunity for the governor of Veneto to photograph the current epidemiological situation in the region which sees an employment rate of the non-critical area and intensive care at 3%, thanks also to vaccination coverage with 84.3 % of Venetians who have undertaken or already completed the immunization process. Vaccine also essential for protection against variants of the virus, with the delta plus that scares Great Britain: “we have no cases of this variant in Veneto” explains the director of prevention of the region Francesca Russo. Accelerating vaccinations to face the winter season with greater serenity seems the only way to go: “to keep the virus under control, we must probably reach the threshold of 90%” explains Gianni Rezza, Director of Health Prevention. And while we proceed with the booster dose for the frail and over 60, vaccination that in Veneto involved 70,374 people, 1.5% of the population, we are waiting for indications for the third dose for the under 60: “we are evaluating whether to extend it to the rest of the population ”says Professor Gianni Rezza. And the guidelines are also awaited for the recall for vaccinated people with the Johnson & Johnson single-dose: “the same manufacturer, explains Giorgio Palù, president of Aifa, has shown that a recall after 2-3 months is effective, so it is possible that the both to use heterologous vaccination “- Interviewees LUCA ZAIA (President of the Veneto Region), FRANCESCA RUSSO (Director of Prevention of the Veneto Region), GIANNI REZZA (Director of Prevention of the Ministry of Health), GIORGIO PALU ‘(President of Aifa) (Service by Francesca Bozza)
