coronavirus in Italy "well into spring" when 10-15 million people will have been inoculated, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Wednesday.Italy, the first Western country to be hit hard by the pandemic, has reported more than 73,000 Covid-related deaths since discovering its outbreak late in February, the highest death toll in Europe and the fifth-highest in the world.Also Read | Ten books from 2020 you must not missItaly kicked off its vaccination drive on Sunday with the first shots produced by Pfizer-BioNTech.
The campaign will initially target health workers and the elderly, followed by people with chronic diseases."It will be well into spring when we see a first significant impact," Conte told reporters at the prime minister's.