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96 years is the first Spanish vaccinated against COVID-19
He felt “nothing” from the shot, said Araceli Rosario Hidalgo Sánchez with a smile after being injected.
Araceli Hidalgo, 96, a resident of the Los Olmos nursing home, receives a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on December 27, 2020, in Guadalajara, becoming the first person to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in Spain. Image: AFP.
MADRID – A 96-year-old young man who lives in a residence in central Spain this Sunday became the first person in the country to be vaccinated against COVID-19, in an event broadcast on national television.
She felt “nothing” from the shot, said Araceli Rosario Hidalgo Sánchez with a smile after being injected.
With her short white hair, the pensioner who lives in the Los Olmos retirement home in Guadalajara slowly got up after putting on her black jacket and walked away leaning on a frame.
Caregiver Monica Tapias continued as the second Spanish to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
The Los Olmos house was chosen to kick off the country’s vaccination campaign because it is located near a Pfizer storage depot, where the vaccines were delivered from Belgium on Saturday prior to nationwide distribution.
So far, no cases of COVID-19 have been detected among staff or residents.
“It is a great pride and a great satisfaction for us, we are representing all the nursing homes in Spain,” said director Marina Vadillo on Thursday.
After the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last Monday, the way is open for injections in the 27-member bloc.
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