ROME
A total of 151,606 people in Italy have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus since vaccinations began on Dec. 27, officials of the Italian Prime Minister announced Monday.
Of those vaccinated, 134,255 were physical care workers, 8,771 were nursing home citizens and 8,580 were non-physical care workers, officials said.
They added that Italy has won 479,700 vaccine doses since Dec. 27 and has so far used 31. 6%.
The region where most of the vaccinations were carried out has been Lazio, which includes the capital Rome.
The total number of vaccines administered in Lazio is 28,134, followed by Tuscany and Veneto.
In Lombardy, where the number of COVID-19 deaths were recorded, with a total of 25,344 deaths, only 6,973 more people were vaccinated.
The fact that Lombardy and other regions are lagging behind in vaccination is a topic of debate in the country.
Italy expects to receive another 470,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday.
At least 75,680 people in Italy have died from the coronavirus and 2,166,244 have been infected, according to figures compiled by the US Johns Hopkins University, making it one of the worst-affected countries in the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed approximately 1. 85 million lives in 191 countries and regions since the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
*Written via Dilan Pamuk in Ankara