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A local health authority in the northern Italian region of Liguria has come under fire after listing gay people among those “at risk” and therefore needing access to the Covid-19 vaccine.
In a reservation form for the vaccine, the health authority for the city of La Spezia named homosexuals in the 10th category called “people with risky behaviours” and which included drug addicts and those “dedicated to prostitution”.
We were hoping it was fake. For this reason we tried to get information from ASL 5 [the local health authority].
After 13 phone calls without a response, including to the public relations office and Covid-19 service, finally the public health and vaccination office told us: ‘Yes, we’re aware of that form, but another office did it.’
Zimbabwe will receive 800,000 vaccine doses developed by China’s Sinopharm by the start of March, AFP reports.
Read the original article at The Guardian