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Early in the morning, the first three Italian citizens were vaccinated against the coronavirus at the Lazzaro Spalanzani Hospital in Rome.
She is a doctor, a nurse, and a member of the hospital support staff. They were vaccinated in front of television cameras, shortly after seven local time. “Vaccinate everyone, I tell you from the bottom of my heart,” said nurse Claudia Alivernini, 28.
“I feel very good. The decision to get vaccinated was quite natural. I was offered and chosen by the first, but also as a symbol, to show that we must trust and believe in this choice,” added Professor Maria Rosaria Kapombianki, head of the laboratory virology department.
The Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, finally highlighted on Twitter that “today the country is waking up again” and that “this campaign begins with the doctors and all the nursing staff, and then spread to the entire population and Italy can definitely win the battle against the virus “.
96 years old, the first to be vaccinated in Spain
A 96-year-old woman in a nursing home in central Spain was the first person in the country to be vaccinated against Covid-19 today, according to images broadcast on state television.
Araceli Rosario Idalgo Sánchez confessed, smiling, that she did not feel “anything” when she was vaccinated. This white-haired lady, who is staying at the Los Olmos Nursing Home in Guadalajara (central Spain), then slowly got up, put on her cardigan and walked away on a wheeled walker.
Monica Tapias, one of the caregivers who works in the same nursing home, was the second person in the country to receive the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine.
This nursing home was chosen to start the vaccination campaign in Spain because of its proximity to the Pfizer storage facilities, where the vaccines arrived yesterday from Belgium before being distributed throughout the country. It was also chosen because no case of Covid-19 has been recorded there.
“It is a great pride and a great satisfaction for us: we represent all nursing homes in Spain,” said Marina Vadigio, director of the residence, on Thursday. “It is an honor for all of us,” he told reporters.
Andreas Raounas, 84, Panagiota Loizou-Fylaktou, 88, and the director of the Nicosia Retirement Home, Athos Matsa, were the first citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccine today in Cyprus.
Expressing his joy at being one of the first to be vaccinated, Mr. Raounas, a resident of the Nicosia Retirement House, conveyed the wish that everything goes well in the near future and called on all its citizens to get vaccinated, characteristically saying that “Only with this energy we can destroy the coronavirus.” It is not possible, he said, for some to fight for our good and for us to be their opponents. “Anyone who refuses to be vaccinated, for me, is a traitor because he is collaborating with an enemy which is a killer, “Rauna said after vaccination. All of us who have chosen to get vaccinated, he continued, are aware that there may be some side effects or side effects, but” if the coronavirus hits you, then it will take you with it. ” I hope everyone is vaccinated and then together we will defeat the coronavirus. “If others work for the good and others fight against it, then for me there is no solution,” said Rauna.
Finally, he thanked the European Commissioner for Health, Stella Kyriakidou, the Minister of Health and all those who work for the management of the pandemic, with the result that “Cyprus today celebrates a historic day with the vaccination of all”.
For her part, Loizou-Fylaktou, when asked how she felt, replied “everything is fine. I told Mr. Athos that I want to get vaccinated first.” Speaking of his son and two grandchildren, he said the reason he was vaccinated – and his son and his wife will do the same – “is that my grandchildren come to see me.”
The first to be vaccinated by the staff of the Nicosia Retirement House was the Director Mr. Athos Matsas, who with his vaccination demonstrates his trust in the world scientific community, “whose aim and ultimate goal is the eradication of COVID-19” . “With my example, I want to influence other people at a younger age, because I think vaccination is necessary,” said Mr. Matsas.
Addressing all employees in nursing homes, Mr. Matsas pointed out that vaccination is everyone’s personal right. However, he continued, “our right stops where the rights of others begin.” If you have a job that deals with the health and care of other people, you must be vaccinated, so that there is no case of transmission of the coronavirus even without your knowledge or without meaning to. “
THE Czech Republic today launched the vaccination campaign against the new coronavirus, as part of the campaign against Covid-19 throughout the European Union.
Prime Minister Andrei Babis was the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the Central Military Hospital in Prague, before other hospitals in the capital and the country’s second-largest city, Brno, began distributing the 9,750 doses it has received so far. Czech Republic.
“The vaccine that arrived yesterday from the European Union is a hope, a hope that we will return to normal life,” Babis said before being vaccinated.
Shortly after Prime Minister Emilie Repikova, 95, a veteran of World War II, was vaccinated.
The country has closed shops and services that were not considered absolutely necessary for the operation of ski resorts, while imposing stricter restrictions on public traffic starting today, in an attempt to curb another increase in COVID-19 cases and patients.
