EU launches vaccine rollout, historic day in virus fight
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Andreas Raounas, 84, the first patient in Island receives from a nurse the vaccine of Pfizer BioNtech against the COVID-19, at a care home in Nicosia, Cyprus, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Cyprus started today the vaccination program against COVID-19. (Katia Christodoulou/Pool Photo via AP)A nurse prepares to administer of Pfizer BioNtech against the COVID-19, at a care home in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Cyprus started today the vaccination program against COVID-19. (Katia Christodoulou/Pool Photo via AP)Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis receives vaccine against COVID-19 at the military hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)Mihaela Anghel, second from left, a Romanian nurse, gets a round of applause from colleagues after getting the first COVID-19 vaccine administered in the country in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Anghel is the nurse who registered and processed Romania's first official COVID-19 patient, on Feb. 27 2020. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)A resident at the 'Haus an der Linde' nursing home receives an injection with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Lichtentanne, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. The first shipments of coronavirus vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer have arrived across the European Union, authorities started to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in a coordinated effort on Sunday. (Robert Michael/Pool via AP)Alicja Jakubowska,left, the head nurse at the Interior Ministry hospital in Warsaw, is getting the coronavirus vaccination by doctor, Artur Zaczynski, right, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday Dec. 27, 2020. Jakubowska was the first person to be vaccinated in Poland as part of a European Union rollout on Sunday. in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)World War II veteran Emilie Repikova, left, watches as Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis receives a vaccine against COVID-19 at the military hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)Health workers watch as the vaccine against the Coronavirus arrives at a nursing home in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. The first shipments of coronavirus vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer have arrived across the European Union, authorities started to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in a coordinated effort on Sunday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Police stand by the entrance of a nursing home as a box of some of the first Pfizer coronavirus vaccines arrives in Madrid, Spain, Sunday Dec. 27. 2020. Spain plans to receive over 4.5 million doses of the vaccine over the next three months, enough it says to immunize just over 2.2 million people. The government estimates that this first phase will be enough to cover nursing home residents and workers, followed by health workers in general and people with disabilities. (AP Photo/Paul White)Ninety-two year-old nursing home resident Gertrud Vogel gets an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine in Cologne, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. The first shipments of coronavirus vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer have arrived across the European Union, and authorities started to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in a coordinated effort on Sunday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)Mihaela Anghel, a Romanian nurse, gets the first COVID-19 vaccine administered in the country in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Anghel is the nurse who registered and processed Romania's first official COVID-19 patient, on Feb. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)Nurse Idoia Crespo prepares a vaccine against the Coronavirus at a nursing home in l'Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. The first shipments of coronavirus vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer have arrived across the European Union, authorities started to vaccinate the most vulnerable people in a coordinated effort on Sunday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)A man gets a COVID-19 vaccine among the first administered in the country in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Romania has started its national vaccination campaign. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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Andreas Raounas, 84, the first patient in Island receives from a nurse the vaccine of Pfizer BioNtech against the COVID-19, at a care home in Nicosia, Cyprus, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Cyprus started today the vaccination program against COVID-19. (Katia Christodoulou/Pool Photo via AP)
