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Milan, September 4 2021 - The "On the road" operation resumes, to vaccinate homeless people living on the streets against Covid 19, the result of collaboration between the Municipality of Milan, the Third Sector, Ats, Areu and the Lombardy Region.

After the first two days of the vaccination campaign, last 3 and 4 August, which allowed 54 people to be reached, we start again on Monday 6 September between 19,30 pm and 21,30 pm to continue for three days a week (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) until the end of the month, with the goal of vaccinating approximately 150 more people.

To the stations of Fondazione Progetto Arca, Cisom and Italian Volunteer Doctors, already present in August, for this second round there is added that of the Italian Red Cross - Milan Committee, which unlike the others will be itinerant and every Monday and Thursday evening will travel around the city ​​center or in peripheral areas far from fixed locations (clinics/medical campers) to intercept people who do not want to move, known cases, fragile and vulnerable from a health and psychiatric point of view.
Also on Mondays and Thursdays, the fixed camper of the Italian Volunteer Doctors returns to Piazza Duca d'Aosta in front of the Central Station.  
On Wednesdays, both the Cisom station in front of the Garibaldi station and the Fondazione Progetto Arca station in Piazza San Babila on the corner of Corso Europa will be available (the latter will also be active on Thursdays).

The same associations will make doctors and nurses available for inoculations of the vaccine, which will be the single-dose Janssen, for medical history and pre- and post-vaccination checks. Informed consent will be collected - distributed in Italian, and also English, French, Arabic or Romanian, upon request - and pre-printed forms will be available for issuing the vaccination certificate.

The 19 mobile units are also involved so that they can report any known people who need it to the Sammartini Center or directly to the associations that carry out vaccinations, and who need to be oriented and accompanied to the vaccination centres.

Between June and July, in the first organized phase of vaccination of homeless people, around 2 thousand doses of vaccine (mostly Janssen and Pzifer) have already been administered overall, with which over 1.300 people have been vaccinated. To achieve the objective, the municipal administration has facilitated contacts between the Lombardy Region and the bodies managing the reception facilities, encouraged the creation of a census of potential vaccine recipients, disseminated information material on the type of vaccine used, and the consent forms informed and the medical history sheet and, among other things, made available to professional mediators.