Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that he intends to be vaccinated against COVID-19. He stated this at a press conference following the results of the year, which was broadcast by the Rai News 24 TV channel.

Italian Prime Minister says he is ready to be vaccinated against coronavirus
Italian Prime Minister says he is ready to be vaccinated against coronavirus


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“I would immediately get (the COVID-19 vaccine) but I will follow the order of priority,” he said.

Conte also clarified that he believes, the first results of vaccination against COVID-19 will appear only when the country will be vaccinated from 10 to 15 million people. At the same time, he stressed that it will be possible to vaccinate only on a voluntary basis.

As reported by IA REGNUM, it became known earlier that to date, a total of over 2.067 million carriers of coronavirus have been identified in Italy, with more than 73 thousand deaths from COVID-19.


HISTORY OF THE ISSUE

In late December 2019, Chinese authorities reported an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in Wuhan, Hubei province. Experts have previously established that the causative agent of the disease was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV (later named SARS-CoV-2). On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which by this time has affected 118 thousand people in 114 countries.

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