Italy: The army will vaccinate teachers in 5 minutes

From today, teachers living in Milan can be vaccinated against the coronavirus in five minutes, going, with their car, to special structures of the Italian army.

The vaccine is given without having to get out of the car. After vaccination, every citizen should wait a quarter to see if there are any side effects.

In this first phase, the “vaccination in a car” is given to teachers, with AstraZeneca preparations. By the end of the month it is estimated that around six hundred vaccines will be given a day, but then the goal is to be able to make more than two thousand. There is an intention to extend this experiment to other parts of Italy.

It is an initiative of the Lombardy region, the Italian Civil Protection and the country’s army, which is part of the new strategy of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, to immediately increase the vaccination rate against Covid 19, in all its regions. Italy.

“People are tired and we have to make every effort to get out of the state of emergency as soon as possible,” said Lombardy Governor Atilio Fontana.

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