Italian health authorities will be able to provide the booster dose to those immunized against covid-19 when five months have passed since they completed the guideline, Italian Minister of Health Roberto Speranza reported on Monday.
"The booster dose is crucial to better protect ourselves and those around us. (...) It can be received five months after completing the first schedule," the minister wrote on social media.
87% of the population over 12 years of age has been vaccinated in Italy with at least one dose, while 84.63% have received the full regimen.
However, in recent days the cases are growing, as in the rest of Europe, and the Government is studying how to control the virus, especially with an eye to Christmas.
This Monday, the president of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region and of the Conference of Regions, Massimiliano Fedriga, asked the Executive not to grant the health certificate to people who are not vaccinated.
In Italy there is currently the limitation of the use of the mask in closed spaces and the obligation to show the health certificate at leisure or work, which attests the vaccination, negativity or having passed the disease.
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Fedriga also asked, on behalf of the rest of the regional authorities, that citizens who enter Italy from countries with high infections and low number of vaccinations be controlled. All with the intention of avoiding new confinements that would once again penalize the economy and would not be understood after the vaccines, said the president of the Conference of Regions.
Italy has accumulated almost 5 million cases of contagion since February 2020 and 133,000 people have died.
