Roundup: Positive news on pandemic in Italy overshadowed by slowdown in vaccine arrivals


  • World
  • Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021

ROME, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Italy on Monday saw its best one-day indicators for the coronavirus pandemic in weeks, but the developments were marred by the news that vaccine shipments from pharmaceutical company Pfizer would be slowed for the next week.

Italy had performed 1.12 million coronavirus vaccinations as of Sunday, making Italy the first country in the European Union to have successfully vaccinated 1.1 percent of its population.

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