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FILE - In this Saturday, May 23, 2020, Domenico Arcuri, Italy's special commissioner for the virus emergency talks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Rome. A significant number of Italians wishing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should have received the vaccine by September, Italy’s special commissioner for the virus emergency said Thursday, billing it as the country’s biggest vaccine campaign in memory. Italy is set to receive 3.4 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine through the EU purchase program in the second half of January, which will be enough to provide the requisite two doses to 1.6 million Italians, out of a population of nearly 60 million. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Official: Italy to start COVID vaccinations in January

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In this Monday, April 20, 2020, file photo, a woman gets a blood test taken by medical personnel at a converted gym, in Cisliano, near Milan, Italy. Italy’s virus reopening phase was supposed to have been accompanied by a series of measures to limit infections in the onetime European epicenter of the pandemic: the distribution of millions of cheap surgical masks to pharmacies and tobacco shops nationwide, a pilot project of 150,000 antibody tests and, eventually, the roll-out of a contact-tracing app. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP, File)

As Europe reopens, key virus protections are still elusive

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