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Europe ‘immunized’ – Covid-19 vaccines have started. The mutation of the virus, which has appeared in several countries after the discovery of the new strain in Britain, is cause for concern.
The countries of the European Union, including those most affected by the pandemic, such as Italy, Spain and France, today launched the vaccination campaigns against Covid-19, welcoming this first victory against the new coronavirus, although a mutation is increasingly worrying the world.
The first doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, delivered yesterday, were administered in Italy shortly before 8 a.m. nurse Claudia Alivernini and Professor Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, director of the virology laboratory at the Spalantsani Hospital in Rome. “I mean it from my heart: we are going to get vaccinated. For ourselves.” For our loved ones and for everyone, “Aliverini said.
Italy, the most affected country in the EU with 71,000 dead, is “waking up again”, tweeted Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, stressing that today “will be forever etched in our memory.”
An hour later, Aratheli Rosario Indalgo Sánchez, 96, became the first Spanish woman to be vaccinated in a nursing home in Guadalajara. The grandmother with the white T-shirt and the protective mask on her face, admitted that she “felt nothing” when they injected her.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, welcomed the launch of the vaccines that “it will help us gradually return to our normal lives. “ He also assured that soon there will be enough doses for everyone, but first the most vulnerable will be protected.
“Roll up your sleeves”
THE Germany, Hungary and Slovakia The “dance” had opened since Saturday, a day before the rest of the countries. In the coming days, a public information campaign will be launched in Germany, with the slogan “Roll up your sleeves”, urging citizens to get vaccinated.
In France, Morissette, 78, said she was “excited” to receive the first dose of the vaccine at the Rene-Miret hospital in Sevran, near Paris. The French government has set a goal of vaccinating one million older people and residents of nursing homes by the end of February. “We have a new weapon against the virus: the vaccine … Let’s pass the message on to our grandparents, to protect them as a matter of priority,” President Emanuel Macron wrote on Twitter.
The vaccine was eagerly awaited in France, where a pandemic has killed more than 62,500 people.
In Slovenia, the first to be vaccinated was an 84-year-old archbishop, in Portugal the head of the Infectious Diseases Service in Romania, the nurse who treated the first patient who contracted Covid-19 in the country.
Vaccines have also started in Sweden, Finland and Denmark. In the Czech Republic, the first to vaccinate was Prime Minister Andrei Babis. “Yesterday I saw on television a woman who said that she was waiting to be vaccinated. “So I decided to set a good example,” he said. He was followed by Health Minister Jan Blatney.
The mutation found in Britain is spreading
Before the EU, many other countries had started vaccinating against Covid-19. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has infected more than 80 million people, of which 1,758,026 have died, according to the French Agency for International Development.
China has been vaccinating since the summerj. Since the beginning of the month Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and other countries followed suit. Israel will start next week and aims to vaccinate a quarter of its 9 million people in a month. It should be noted that the country re-enters today, for the third time, in a general confinement that will last at least two weeks.
Although the vaccine casts a ray of hope, The spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 mutation has caused concern in recent days.
Cases have been identified in Canada, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Japan. Today, Norway and Jordan announced that this new variant was identified in four individuals (two in each country) who had recently returned from a trip to the UK.
THE Norway, like many other countries, they have cut their air link with Great Britain to avoid the “introduction” of this new strain, which is considered more contagious.
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