Vaccines have halved Italy's Covid-19 death toll, study shows

Vaccines against Covid-19 have roughly halved the death toll from the disease in Italy, preventing some 150,000 fatalities and eight million cases last year, the National Health Institute (ISS) estimated today.

The ISS study, which ran from the start of 2021 until the end of January this year, concluded the inoculation campaign also prevented more than...