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Our Italian region is now offering drop-in vaccination for school leavers all this week. Today is a Bank Holiday but the vaccination centres are open for them.
I'm kind of surprised they've reached this stage so quickly. We do of course have many people who are much older who've still to receive their second jab, but they will all have an appointment for that.
The open days are mostly to get rid of excess AZ doses, some regions have seen as high as 80% refusal rate. Lombardy has been offering to take the spares which has not gone down well here either.
Uptake seems to be rather bad in Italy. Only 71% of 60-69 year olds and 44% of 50-59 year olds have gotten first dose so far, according to ecdc.
The government always worked on the basis of a 70% coverage. Some people just havent bothered now cases are so low and vaccinations arent a part of life the way they are in the UK. My 50 year old boss has only just booked his in Lazio, he will get it 3 days before me who is in the 30s group in Lombardy.