ROME — Italy’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign
prevented some 150,000 deaths, slashing the country’s death toll by almost
half, the national health institute (ISS) said Wednesday.
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Vaccines also prevented eight million cases of
COVID-19, over 500,000 hospitalizations, and more than 55,000 coronavirus cases
in intensive care, the ISS said in a report.
The report covers the period between December 27,
2020, when the vaccination campaign began and January 31 of this year, using a
methodology initially developed for flu vaccines, it said.
Italy has been one of the countries worst affected
by the pandemic, with more than 160,000
deaths reported since February 2020, the second-highest toll in Europe after
Britain.
To date, almost 90 percent of those over the age of 12 have
been fully vaccinated, and just over 34 percent of children aged five to
eleven.
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