“The vaccine went very well and it was an exciting, historical moment,” 29-year-old nurse Claudia Alivernini told state-owned television RAINEWS24. Italy on Thursday became the eighth country in the world to exceed 2 million officially recorded cases. The vaccine will be free of charge and health workers and elderly people will be the first to be offered the voluntary inoculation. Around 9,750 doses have already arrived in Italy and another 470,000 are expected to arrive from next week, the health ministry said. “Today is a symbolic day which must give the idea of the beauty of Europe that has bought the vaccines for everybody and distributed them,” Commissioner Arcuri said.

Source: bd News24 December 27, 2020 08:15 UTC