Mother drives 1,200km from the UK to Italy to vaccinate her nine-year-old daughter against Covid-19

Alice Colombo set off from Maidstone, a city about 50km southeast of London, UK, and drove 1,247km, in a 13-hour drive, to Milan, Italy. Target? Immunization is “the most valuable thing in the world”.

a BBC is important That due to the British government’s decision to vaccinate only children under the age of 12 who are classified as vulnerable, unlike other European countries that allow all children to be vaccinated from the age of five, as in the case of Portugal and Italy, Alice decided to take advantage of the fact that her nine-year-old daughter is pregnant Italian citizenship to go to Milan to receive a Covid-19 vaccine and hit the road – on a car trip to avoid airport congestion.

“Why don’t I give protection to the most precious thing in the world to me, my daughter, instead of risking turning to me in five, 10, 15 years and saying, ‘Mom, I have heart problems, I have brain problems, I have lung problems, why didn’t you all What is possible to protect me?” explains Alice, whose main concern is the effects of COVID-19, health problems that go beyond the infection itself.

“I’d rather risk a vaccine we know a lot about than risk getting a virus we know so little about,” he says.

The co-chair of the Joint Commission on Vaccination and Immunization, Wei Shen Lim explained.