by In Trieste
Italy to give left-over vaccines to whoever is available to avoid waste, reports ANSA.
Italy’s coronavirus emergency commissioner General Francesco Figliuolo signed an order stating that if vaccine doses are left over at the end of the day and cannot be stored they should be administered to whoever is “available in that moment” to avoid waste.
Figliuolo’s move, part of Italy’s national vaccination plan, follows his comments when he called for “common sense” in relation to vaccine waste.
A notorious Trieste journalist, Ferdinando Avarino, who conducts a local television show called the Ring on channel Telequattro, stated that on March 16 two thirds of teachers in a small town in Friuli Venezia Giulia refused their vaccinations and so not to waste the prepared dozed all media representatives were invited to get theirs that day. “We were the readily available group of people so of course we went in and got it”, said Avarino.
In recent days Italy gave the green light to Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine, the fourth to be licensed by the national medicines agency (AIFA) after Pfizer-BionTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
