Reservations for the fourth dose of the anti-Covid vaccine for the over 60 and the frail over 12 will be open shortly in Sardinia.
"We have started a survey with the ASL and the hospitals to take stock of the forces in the field that will allow us to define the best paths to follow up on the new indications for the expansion of the audience to which the second is addressed booster dose, about 500 thousand people in Sardinia ", explains Mario Nieddu, regional health councilor.
The hubs that will be used for now are the ones that have remained open. "We hope there will be a significant response, so far there has not been for over 80 and frail", underlines Nieddu, recalling that GPs and pharmacies will also be able to vaccinate. To date, he adds, "the vaccination campaign has recorded important numbers : approximately 87% of the population has completed the primary course and 84% of the audience eligible for vaccination has undergone the third dose ". In any case," the appeal to vaccination is addressed above all to the people most at risk " .
In Oristano the Local Health Authority goes ahead, the Directorate General is reorganizing the vaccination campaign in anticipation of the increase in accesses. "The immediate focus will be on extending the opening days of the anti-Covid vaccine clinic, in via Carducci, 35, which is currently open on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9 to 13 and from 15 to 18, to evaluate later the possible reopening of the vaccination hub ", the Company informs in a note that invites the categories interested in the fourth dose, over sixty and frail, not to go immediately to the ASL clinics" in order to avoid long waits and gatherings ".
(Unioneonline / ss)
