EU begins mass vaccination against Covid-19
The campaign follows the authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by the European Commission and European Medicines Agency.;
Brussels" The European Union on Sunday officially started rolling out a mass vaccination campaign against Covid-19.
The campaign follows the authorisation for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by the European Commission and European Medicines Agency.
"The first vaccinations against Covid-19 are beginning across the European Union today," European Commission said in a tweet on Sunday
"We have acted in unity throughout this pandemic. Today we begin to turn the page on this chapter, together," it added.
First Covid-19-vaccines arrived in EU member states on Saturday and according to a report in BBC, some countries started administering the jabs on Saturday itself.
"Today, we start turning the page on a difficult year. The #COVID19 vaccine has been delivered to all EU countries. Vaccination will begin tomorrow across the EU," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted on Saturday.
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