Italy To Begin Administering 2nd Covid Booster Dose To Over-60s

Italy To Begin Administering 2nd Covid Booster Dose To Over-60s

Italy COVID-19: Italy saw coronavirus cases rise in July.

Rome:

Italy will soon start its campaign to administer a second COVID-19 booster to everyone aged over 60, the health minister said on Monday, after receiving a green light from European Union health agencies.

The European recommendation came on Monday amid a new rise in infections and hospitalisations across Europe and was expected to facilitate national decisions to speed up vaccination campaigns, which have been slowing in recent months.

Health Minister Roberto Speranza said the government had already given the go-ahead to Italy’s 20 regional administrations to start the second booster campaign, after the approval of national medicine agency AIFA.

“All the scientific evidence … shows that an extra dose of booster can greatly protect people, especially the frail and elderly, from hospitalisation,” Speranza told state broadcaster Rai.

Italy saw coronavirus cases rise in July. The number of daily infections last week surpassed 100,000 for the first time since February and hospital admissions are also seen increasing.

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