Italian premier pledges vaccine boost as 'new wave' of Covid cases lead to lockdown 

The country will be placed under a nationwide lockdown over the Easter weekend for the second year running, the government said on Friday

Italian premier Mario Draghi speaks after visiting a Covid-19 vaccination centre, at the Rome Leonardo Da Vinci airport in Fiumicino (Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool Photo via AP)

Italy’s new premier has pledged to triple the number of daily vaccinations administered throughout the country as coronavirus cases rise.

Mario Draghi inspected a vaccination centre at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport on Friday and noted the pace, now running 170,000 shots daily, had picked up this month.