Italy plans to set up primrose-shaped pavilions in its artistic squares to dispense vaccines against the highly contagious disease caused by the novel coronavirus during a campaign that kicks off next month, Reuters reports.

Italy, the first Western country hit by the pandemic, on Saturday overtook Britain to report the highest official death toll from Covid-19 among European countries.

Domenico Arcuri, Rome’s special commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency, confirmed on Sunday that Italy hoped to begin vaccinating socio-medical staff and residents of homes for the elderly with 1.8 million doses in mid-January.