All islands in Gulf of Naples to be 'covid-free' by Saturday

  NAPLES - The region of Campania has announced that this Saturday will be the day on which all the islands of the Gulf of Naples can finally be called “covid-free” after the mass vaccination campaigns on Procida, Capri and Ischia. 

  Ischia, who began their mass vaccination on May 5, is the only island still vaccinating, and their completion on the weekend will mark the end of the project. Vaccinations were accelerated thanks to ‘open days’ in vaccination centres on the island, in the sports hall of Ischia (the town) and Forio.

  The vaccination centre at Ischia is administering around 1,000 shots a day to anyone over the age of 18, while in Forio they are administering second shots to teaching staff. According to the Campania health authority, they consider themselves fully vaccinated once they have vaccinated “at least 90 percent of each age group.”

  Procida, the smallest of the islands with around 10,000 inhabitants, began their mass vaccination campaign on April 28, and it concluded on May 2.

  Capri, meanwhile, with its 12,000 inhabitants, was declared ‘covid-free’ on May 8. Ischia is the largest of the three (and third largest in Italy, after Sicily and Sardinia), and aims to call its 70,000 population covid-free by May 22.

 

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