Italy expects to get initial 3.4 million shots of COVID vaccine in January - government source
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy will receive an initial 3.4 million shots of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, probably in January, a government source told Reuters on Tuesday.
The country will be allocated some 13.6% of the first 200 million doses made available to Europe, the source said.
On Monday, Pfizer said its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, in a major victory in the fight against the global pandemic.
Italy is one of Europe's worst-hit countries with over 960,000 cases to date.
(Reporting by Elvira Pollina; writing by Angelo Amante; editing by Gavin Jones)