Italy aims to vaccinate over 10 million people against Covid by April, PM rules out making jab obligatory

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Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said he expects the vaccination campaign in Italy to help slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic by late spring, but vaccinations will not be obligatory.

“We will see a significant effect with 10 to 15 million vaccinated people, not before April,” Conte told reporters in Rome on Wednesday. First, health workers and elderly people will be vaccinated, and then citizens with chronic diseases are next in line to receive the protective shots, the PM said during his end-of-year news conference.

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