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Italy has for the first time inoculated more than 500,000 people in a day, meeting a key coronavirus vaccinations target, the government said Friday.\n <\/p>\n

Authorities initially hoped to reach the milestone by mid-April, but pushed back the objective as supply shortages stymied immunisation efforts across Europe. <\/p>\n

“Yesterday more than 500,000 doses of the vaccine were administered in Italy,” Health Minister Roberto Speranza wrote on Facebook<\/a>, hailing the institutional “team work” that led to the result.<\/p>\n

According to government statistics, some 19.5 million doses have so far been administered, and 5.75 million people have been fully vaccinated in a country of around 60 million residents. <\/p>\n

The government’s coronavirus commissioner, army general<\/a> Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, told RAI public television that 60 percent of the adult population should be fully vaccinated by mid July.<\/p>\n

The pace of inoculations has stepped up in recent days, but business daily Il Sole 24 Ore calculated that the seven-day average of daily inoculations is still only around 360,000.<\/p>\n

According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Italy’s vaccination efforts are slightly behind those of its larger European peers.<\/p>\n

Just under 25 percent of Italians have received at least one dose of the vaccine, against 28.1 percent of Germans, 26.7 percent of French people and 27.6 percent of Spaniards. <\/p>\n

Italy badly needs relief from the coronavirus. <\/p>\n

Its economy suffered its biggest post-war recession last year, and the official COVID-19 death toll, standing at more than 120,000, is the second-highest in Europe after Britain’s.<\/p>\n

Under pressure from lockdown-weary businesses, the government eased restrictions on Monday, letting for example bars and restaurants reopen for outdoors service across much of the country.<\/p>\n

Tighter restrictions remain in force only in a handful of regions with higher infection figures, including Sicily, Puglia, Calabria and Basilicata in the south.<\/p>\n

All four are medium-risk “orange” zones, where people cannot leave their towns of residence and eateries are limited to takeaway and delivery service.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Speranza announced a change in restrictions for two more regions, effective from Monday. <\/p>\n

A partial lockdown is due to end on the island of Sardinia, with a move from the “red” to the “orange” category, while Val d’Aosta in the north is heading the other way, from “orange” to “red”.\n <\/p>\n\n

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