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VACCINE

Who is eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine in your region of Italy?

With each of Italy's 20 regions vaccinating on their own timetable, whether you can book a shot depends on where you live. Here's which categories are eligible across the country right now.

Who is eligible for a Covid-19 vaccine in your region of Italy?
Waiting to be vaccinated in Rome. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP

This article was updated on May 28th.

While Italy’s national vaccination plan sets priority groups that each region is supposed to stick to, regional health authorities have some freedom to set their own schedule according to their population and the doses available. 

That’s why over-40s can already get their shots in most parts of the country, but a few others are already onto people in their 30s or even younger. Meanwhile some regions have closed booking for over-80s, health workers and teachers who have already mostly had at least one dose.

Here’s a breakdown of who can currently book a jab in each region of Italy.

Abruzzo

  • Over-40s 
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Students in their final of high school

Book online here

Basilicata

  • Over-40s 
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk

Book online here.

Calabria

  • Over-40s 
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk

Book online here.

Campania

  • Over-40s
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk

Book online here.

Emilia-Romagna

  • Over-50s
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Health workers
  • People in care homes
  • School and university employees
  • Members of the armed forces, emergency services, prison wardens
  • From June 3rd: Over-40s
  • From June 7th: People working in the tourism sector

Find out how to book here.

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

  • Over-40s
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Health workers
  • School and university employees
  • Members of the armed forces, emergency services, Civil Protection volunteers

Find out how to book here.

Vaccinating senior citizens at home in Rome. Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP

Lazio

  • Over-40s
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities
  • Students in the final year of high school

Book online here.

Liguria

  • Over-40s
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Police, armed forces, Civil Protection volunteers, prison wardens
  • From June 4th: Over-35s

Book online here.

Lombardy

  • Over-30s
  • Under-30s with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities

Book online here.

Marche

  • Over-40s
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Health workers
  • School and university employees
  • Members of the armed forces and emergency services

Book online here.

Molise

  • Over-50s
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities

Book online here.

Piedmont

  • Over-30s
  • Clinically vulnerable people
  • School and university employees
  • Civil Protection volunteers

Book online here.

Health workers in Piedmont give vaccinations door-to-door. Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP

Puglia

  • Over-50s
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Health workers
  • School and university employees
  • Members of the armed forces and emergency services

Book online here.

Sardinia

  • Over-40s
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • School employees

Book online here.

Sicily

  • Over-40s
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities

Book online here.

Autonomous province of Trento

  • Over-50s
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Members of the armed forces and Civil Protection volunteers
  • Health workers
  • Teachers involved in giving final high school exams

Book online here.

Autonomous province of Bolzano

  • Everybody over 18

Book online here.

Vaccinations aboard a vaporetto in Venice. Photo by ANDREA PATTARO / AFP

Tuscany

  • Over-40s
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Health workers
  • Members of the police and armed forces

Book online here.

Umbria

  • Over-30s
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
  • Health workers
  • School and university staff
  • Members of the armed forces, prison wardens

Book online here.

Valle D’Aosta

  • Over-40s
  • People with severe health conditions and disabilities

Those eligible will be contacted by their local health authorities. Find more information here.

Veneto

  • Over-40s 
  • People with comorbidities, severe health conditions or disabilities
  • Caregivers and family members of people at high risk

Book online here.

For more information about getting vaccinated in Italy, check your regional health service’s website (links here) or contact your doctor or pharmacist.

Member comments

  1. Why haven’t Umbria gone far than this?
    Umbria

    Over-70s
    People with severe health conditions and disabilities
    Caregivers and family members of people at high risk
    Health workers

  2. I have arranged an appointment in Rome to have my eyes examined. Then they tell me I need a green card to travel on a train. Then it’s proving very difficult to obtain one. I want to be vaccinated. I want a green card. And would all this be easier in England, or is it just as convoluted there?

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POLITICS

Italian tourism minister charged with Covid-era fraud

Prosecutors on Friday charged Italy's tourism minister with fraud relating to government redundancy funds claimed by her publishing companies during the coronavirus pandemic.

Italian tourism minister charged with Covid-era fraud

Opposition lawmakers immediately requested the resignation of Daniela Santanche, a leading member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy party.

Santanche, 63, has strongly rejected the allegations, including in a defiant appearance in parliament last year.

“The Milan prosecutor’s office today requested the indictment of the Minister Santanche and other persons as well as the companies Visibilia Editore and Visibilia Concessionaria,” the office said in a brief statement.

They were indicted “for alleged fraud of the INPS (National Institute for Social Security) in relation to alleged irregularities in the use of the Covid 19 redundancy fund, for a total of 13 employees”.

According to media reports, Visibilia is accused of obtaining state funds intended to help companies struggling with the pandemic to temporarily lay off staff — when in fact the 13 employees continued to work.

Santanche sold her stake in Visibilia when she joined the government of Meloni, who took office in October 2022.

The investigation has been going on for months, but with the decision by prosecutors to indict, opposition parties said Santanche should resign.

“We expect the prime minister to have a minimum of respect for the institutions and ask for Daniela Santanche’s resignation,” said Elly Schlein, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party.

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