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A historic moment in Europe: with more than 14 million infected on the continent and 335 thousand victims, mass vaccination has begun throughout the Union.
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German pilot Sami Kramer drew a giant syringe in the sky while flying a two-hundred-kilometer route in honor of the start of immunization against Kovid-19 in Europe, Reuters reported. The 20-year-old pilot had planned his route on a GPS device before taking off from a runway near Lake Constance in southern Germany. His syringe route was recorded on the flightradar24 website.
“There are still relatively many people who are opposed to vaccination, and my flight was a reminder for them to think about it, for things to move,” Kramer told Reuters. He explicitly stressed that his flight should not be seen as a direct call for immunization.
“It can also be seen as an expression of joy that the aviation industry has been particularly affected by the pandemic,” he said.
The campaign in Vaccination against the coronavirus has officially started in Germany.11 months after the appearance of the first case of Kovid-19 in the country, reported DPA.
The first to be immunized are people over 80 and employees of hospitals and nursing homes, who are at particularly high risk.
First vaccines in Germany
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He was vaccinated in Berlin. 101-year-old resident of a nursing home in the southern district of Steglitz. A mobile vaccination team arrived at the home with a van around 7:45 am local time.
Germany is equipping mobile teams to launch the campaign and more than 400 vaccination centers will be operational in the coming days.
However, in some areas of the southern state of Bavaria, vaccination had to be postponed due to doubts about whether Pfizer / Biontech had at all times been stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius, as required.
Although the campaign officially started today, some residents and staff of a nursing home in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, were immunized yesterday. Among the first was Edith Quojcala, 101. Health Minister Jens Spahn was surprised by the province’s decision to hurry.
We have agreed with all the partner countries of the EU and the 16 federal states to deliver the vaccine to all on Saturday and to start the vaccination together on Sunday, he told Bild.
The government is urging people to get vaccinated as it is in their favor and will protect others. According to experts, 60 to 70 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated to control the pandemic.
According to a survey by Yugav, commissioned by the DPA, 65 percent of Germans plan to get vaccinated, although 57 admit they are concerned about possible side effects.
First vaccines in Germany
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IN Malta’s first vaccine was given to a nurse in a state hospital. Rachel Grek was immunized in the presence of Prime Minister Robert Abella and Minister of Health Chris Ferne. The island received an initial supply of 10,000 Pfizer / Biontech vaccines yesterday.
The first to be immunized will be health workers and employees and residents of nursing homes. Ferne said he expects three-quarters of the country’s population to be vaccinated by the summer of 2021. According to a survey released today, more than 70 percent of Maltese say they are likely to be vaccinated.
A nurse was also the first to be vaccinated in Poland – Alicia Jakubowska, Head of Nursing at the Ministry of the Interior Hospital in Warsaw. At the top of the vaccine list in Poland are healthcare workers at the forefront. Since the start of the pandemic in the country with a population of almost 38 million, about 1.3 million cases have been confirmed and 27,118 have died.
Since the number of new infections began to rise dramatically in late September, Poland has returned some of the restrictions, including closing gyms and swimming pools, and banning the use of hotels other than business travel. Some of the measures, such as a ban on the operation of shopping malls, were lifted for the run-up to Christmas, but are expected to take effect again tomorrow.
To Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrei Babish and a 95-year-old WWII veteran were vaccinated for the first time Emily Repikova.
The 66-year-old prime minister’s vaccine was broadcast on television at the Central Military Hospital in Prague. Earlier, he said he wanted to set a good example for the Czechs and warned of false information about the spread of the vaccine on the Internet.
Overall, the Czech Republic was spared from the first wave of the pandemic in the spring, but has seen a sharp increase in the number of infected since early autumn. Today 3,024 new cases were reported, bringing the number of cases to a total of 670,599, of which 11,044 died.
The nurse of the intensive care unit of the Athens hospital Evangelismos Evstatia Kapsiuli was the first to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the country, TASS reported, citing ERT-1 TV.
They were vaccinated later today. President Ekaterini Sakelaropoulos, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the country’s chief epidemiologist, Sotiris Tsiodras, the president of the parliament Konstantinos Tasulas, the leader of the left-wing party Front for European Realist Disobedience (MEPA25), Yannis Varoufakis, the president of the National Vaccination Committee Maria Theodoridou; Hieroteo Church.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis receives an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine at the University Hospital of Athens
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The leader of the main opposition party, Alexis Tsipras, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias, and several other politicians will be vaccinated on Monday.
The first 9,750 doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in Greece on Friday evening. Immediately after the politicians, it is planned to vaccinate citizens over 65, a total of about 2.4 million people. The next stage involves people with chronic illnesses and eventually everyone else who wants to get vaccinated.
Coronavirus vaccine in Croatia it started with Branka Anicic, 81 years old, a resident of a home for the elderly in Zagreb, the Hina news agency reported.
After receiving the Pfizer vaccine, Anicic said he was happy to be the first in the country and that with the vaccination life would gradually return to normal. He called on everyone to follow his example to protect themselves, their friends and their family. In Croatia, people in nursing homes, medical staff working with Kovid-19 patients, and ambulance staff will be vaccinated first.
A 96-year-old woman from the Los Olmos Nursing Home in Guadalajara was the first woman vaccinated on Sunday morning in Spain. Immediately afterwards, a 48-year-old nurse from the same household received a dose of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine.
Before the injection, Araceli Rosari crossed herself and thanked God for the honor. For 15 minutes, medical staff waited to see if there would be any side effects from the sting, given the age of the patient, but there were none. After 21 days, the 96-year-old woman will receive the second dose of the vaccine to ensure its effectiveness.
The vaccine launched in Europe aims to immunize 70 percent of the 446 million people in the European Union. Meanwhile, the head of Europol warned of the danger of fraud with fake vaccines against the coronavirus. There are already reports of the sale of vaccines on social media, as well as attempts to steal the drug.
First vaccines in Italy
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The UK, which started mass vaccination with Pfizer, is already preparing for the British-Swedish company AstraZeneca’s vaccine on January 4.
And the European Medicines Agency must decide on the second vaccine, Moderna, if it is admitted on the European market.
Meanwhile, in the United States, where immunization with Moderna began, there is already a case of an acute allergic reaction. This is a doctor in Boston, Massachusetts. They injected him with an anti-allergy medicine and then hospitalized him for examination. It’s good now.
